minimum wage

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In Nebraska and Missouri, voter-passed ballot initiatives brought those states’ minimum wages up to $15 an hour, more than twice as much as some neighbors that have maintained the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal

He says every time the minimum wage goes up it adds £100,000 to his wage bill.

From BBC

Some counties and cities, including Los Angeles, already have higher local minimum wage requirements.

From Los Angeles Times

The PM promised that over the next year "things start to feel easier", pointing to frozen rail fares, prescription charges and fuel duty, as well as increases to the minimum wage.

From BBC

What characterizes poor households isn’t that people earn the minimum wage.

From The Wall Street Journal