Costco will raise its starting rate for hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals such as Amazon, Target and Best Buy. Costco has around 180,000 ...

Republicans, for a long time, had the right idea on economics with their embrace of the free market. The phrase "Free markets, free people" has been often quoted as a description of the GOP's economic ...

The proposal to adopt a Workers’ Bill of Rights and raise the minimum wage in Olympia to $20 per hour might show up on residents’ election ballots this November. But not before Olympia City Council ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers across more than a dozen cities and states will soon receive higher pay, thanks to minimum wage hikes set to take effect July 1. More than 800,000 workers in two ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana is one of only a few states without its own minimum wage law. That means workers rely on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which has not changed since ...

The last time the federal minimum wage increased, Barack Obama had just taken office, the iPhone 3GS was the hot new gadget and you could still rent DVDs at Blockbuster. Since July 2009, the number ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers across the U.S. are set to get a pay bump starting July 1, as minimum wage increases take effect in more than a dozen states, cities, and counties. According to the ...