And if more policy makers and voters truly understood the fundamentals of economics, they might find themselves on the other side of the now-popular argument to raise the minimum wage. As for the ...
This data shows hourly minimum wages in each country from 2013. The currency is converted into U.S. dollars using the OECD's purchasing power parity calculation. Finland, Sweden, Denmark ...
Twenty-one states will raise their minimum wages on Jan. 1, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and the tenor of the news stories is that this boost to worker paychecks is an ...
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has been that way since 2009. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) describes this ...
MIAMI — Minimum-wage workers ... lean on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — a number that hasn't changed in over a decade and a rate that one 2022 economic analysis found is worth ...
that increasing the minimum wage would jeopardize jobs. There is no issue in economics studied so extensively as the minimum wage. The overwhelming conclusion is that raising the minimum wage is not a ...