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

A cheeseburger in 1948 cost 19 cents, while the federal minimum wage was 40 cents an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

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

The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela