minimum wage

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This could include raising the agricultural minimum wage, increasing the California Employment Development Department’s program oversight capacity, and bolstering legal protections for undocumented farmworkers organizing for better working conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Including housing deductions, employers can now pay H-2A workers $13.90 an hour, significantly below California’s minimum wage of $16.90 an hour.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Ms. Rodríguez told the nation in an April 8 economic speech that to fight inflation she will approve only a “responsible” minimum wage increase on International Workers’ Day, May 1.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

After thousands of contract workers protested outside factories in one northern Indian state last week, the state government increased the minimum wage there by 35%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler