The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has been that way since 2009. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) describes this stagnant wage as “shameful” in today’s economy. Sanders, well-known for ...

Cleaners at British Airways’ offices at Heathrow have announced strike action as staff are “on poverty wages” and forced to ...

The bill, House Bill 129, defines “living wage” as a wage equivalent or greater than 130% of the poverty level in the county where a person works. If approved, the bill would apply to any business ...

The state minimum wage — which is the same as the federal minimum wage at $7.25 per hour — is “a poverty wage,” she added. “There are 168 hours in a week, but in North Carolina a single ...

These wages are closer to the poverty wage than they are to the living wage for Jefferson County. A minimum wage increase would benefit more than just the 870,000 Pennsylvania workers who earn bel ...

What comes in between wage hike proposals and poverty or upliftment of life's condition for the working class is, as usual, avarice. The P200 wage increase that has just been approved by the House lab ...

Districts with the highest concentrations of poverty employ 13.5% of all the teachers ... some progress through recent budgets in increasing wages to address the educator shortage, it still ...