The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development is considering several bills that could raise minimum wages.

At Dempsey's restaurant in Columbus, the employees have something on their minds. Manager Heather Ross says between student loans and health and car insurance, the federal minimum wage just doesn't ...

What happens when a political claim insists that an industry is collapsing, but the data tells a far more tangled story? A ...

Raising the minimum wage for human services workers in New York to $29 per hour could generate almost $1 billion in tax revenue and $23 billion in economic activity while lifting about 100,000 out ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's plan to give fast-food workers a $15 minimum wage is spurring similar efforts in states around the country — even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to enact an ...

WASHINGTON — What should the minimum wage be? Depending on where you live, it is a different answer. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a figure that has been the same since 2009. A number of ...

President Obama's call to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour and boost it annually to keep pace with inflation is already getting a trial run. Ten states make similar cost-of-living adjustments, ...