minimum-wage

(Karen_Chappell)

San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City To Cross $10 Minimum Wage Line
By Chris Morran on December 12, 2011 2:30 PM   171 Comments
When the calendar flips over to 2012, minimum wage workers in San Francisco will be making a bit more, as the city becomes the first local in the U.S. with a bottom-line pay rate of more than $10/hour. More »

(lylevincent)

Cheap Chinese Labor Will Die On Jan 1 With A Minimum Wage Increase
By Ben Popken on November 11, 2011 2:00 PM   62 Comments
Many of the things you buy and own were touched at some point by Chinese hands, and those hands are about to get a little more expensive. The Guangdong province in China, the seat of the country's manufacturing might, is going to get a 20% minimum wage increase starting January 1st, 2012. More »

(dsuniaga)

McDonald's To Beef Up Workforce With 50,000 More Employees In April
By Phil Villarreal on April 5, 2011 10:15 AM   62 Comments
Confirming that no matter how bad the job market gets, America's hunger for fast food makes burger-flipping a growth industry, McDonald's announced plans to hire 50,000 new American employees April 19. More »

(The Consumerist)

Study: Higher Minimum Wage Doesn't Increase Unemployment
By Ben Popken on November 1, 2010 5:00 PM   160 Comments
A new study shows that increased minimum wage does not increase unemployment. More »

Lower Cost Of Living Means Less Income For Some
By Laura Northrup on October 17, 2009 9:00 PM   55 Comments

—>The good news: the cost of living is decreasing, or at least isn't increasing. The bad news: Colorado is the first state to actually decrease its minimum wage, from $7.28 to $7.24, and Social Security recipients will not be receiving their routine cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA for 2010.   More »

At Least Someone's Getting A Raise: Minimum Wage Rises To $7.25
By Carey Alexander on July 25, 2009 4:00 PM   130 Comments

—>Great news, laid-off Wall Streeters, minimum wage work just a got bit more lucrative! As of yesterday, the new minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.  More »

Minimum Wage Soars To $6.55, Working Poor Still Too Impoverished To Celebrate
By Carey Alexander on July 26, 2008 4:00 AM   210 Comments

—>Great news, minimum wage workers: if you spend the next year working without getting sick or, um, going on vacation, you'll make $13,624! Uncle Sam's $0.70 minimum wage hike is the second of three to take effect before next summer, but the meager raise is hardly a godsend for the working poor.  More »

Minimum Wage Rates Across The Country
By Meg Marco on July 24, 2007 4:10 PM   66 Comments

—>With all this talk about the new minimum wage we thought we'd take a look at the state minimum wage rates from across the country.   More »

Minimum Wage Bumps Up To $5.85 This Week
By Meg Marco on July 21, 2007 11:15 PM   80 Comments

—>The federal minimum wage is rising to $5.85 this week, up from $5.15. The change is part of a plan to give minimum-wage workers an additional 70 cent boost each summer until 2009, when the minimum wage will be $7.50, or about $15,000 a year before taxes and without taking time off.   More »

Blogobitchin!
By consumerist.com on July 31, 2006 11:57 PM   2 Comments
• A certain big blue box retailer uses fake statistics in ads to argue against minimum wage increases. Color me classy. [Beachwood Reporter]  More »

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