California and Washington are two such examples where the minimum wage stands at $14.00 and $13.69, respectively, while D.C. has already brought its minimum hourly rate of pay to $15.00.

View the full infographic (CAP Action). California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is poised to sign into law a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from $8 per hour to $10 per hour by 2016.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new infographic detailing the positive effect that raising the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour would ...

If you're working on the minimum wage with a family, is your take-home pay really enough to survive on? According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a single ...

History of the Federal Minimum Wage Established by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the federal minimum wage currently applies to nearly two-thirds of public- and private-sector workers but no… ...

Infographic: Everything you need ... watches as protesters gather outside during a demonstration by fast-food workers and activists calling for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $15, ...

Oregon is also increasing its minimum wage in July, from $10.75 to $11.25 an hour, although that number will be slightly higher ($12 per hour) in Portland and slightly lower ($10 per hour) in ...

Oregon's minimum wage will rise 35 cents to $15.05 an hour on July 1, also through an inflation adjustment, boosting pay for 9.4% of the state's workforce, or 801,700 workers.

If the minimum wage had kept pace with gains in the economy's productivity over the last 50 years, it would be nearly $26 an hour today, or more than $50,000 a year in annual income, ...

Minimum wage debates moving through state legislatures. Virginia: Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill in March that would have raised the minimum wage to $13.50 per hour by Jan. 1, 2026 and $15 per ...