The Latest Breaking News from Minimum Wage

The government knows how miserable the real-world outcome is for people on low wages suffering excruciating effective marginal tax rates.

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

On May 12, Yes on the California Living Wage Act, the campaign behind an initiative to increase the state’s minimum wage to $18, announced that they had collected over 1 million signatures. The initiative would enact a law to increase the minimum wage at different intervals depending on whether an…

The state’s unemployment rate is well above average, yet there’s a ballot initiative hoping to push the minimum wage to $18 an hour.

Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel considers the idea that, as businesses become more global, workers’ rights should, too

California's minimum wage will increase to $15.50 per hour next year

Wages have become the latest battleground in the election, with debate raging about how much extra workers can get paid without sending businesses broke and consumer prices soaring.

IWGB union says endorsement by GMB means workers still receive below the minimum wage

When wages don’t grow, household expenditures and ultimately business profits stagnate as well. Here’s how this has played out in Taiwan.

Labor leader says stance only relates to those on minimum wage of $20.33 an hour and is conditional on industrial tribunal ordering increase

National Union of Students says the Liberal’s position on minimum pay increases is at odds with automatic indexing of student loans to CPI