A 1994 paper blew up the consensus that minimum-wage increases kill jobs. Economists have been at each other’s throats ever ...

Discover what the minimum wage was the year you were born and how much that paycheck would be worth today after decades of ...

To mitigate the damage to the hospitality industry, the D.C. Council froze the base pay for the tipped minimum wage at $10 until this summer, when it will continue to rise. That c ...

The federal minimum wage sits at $7.25 per hour, unchanged since July 24, 2009. If you work full time at that rate (40 hours weekly for 52 weeks), you earn $15,080 annually before taxes. That’s ...

Workers at franchised fast food restaurants got a big pay bump about two years ago. A UC Santa Cruz economics researcher suggests that may have come with a side of unintended consequences.