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When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in May his intention to impanel a wage board to “examine the minimum wage in the fast food industry,” fair-minded observers understood the implications: The minimum wage was going up, and it was most likely rising to the $15-an-hour level demanded by the…

Portland’s City Council recently voted to raise the city’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Now, proponents at the Maine AFL-CIO have launched a referendum to raise the minimum wage statewide by 60 percent to $12 an hour. In support of this effort, a liberal advocacy group called the Maine…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fast-food wage board concluded its fourth and final public hearing this week, and will now retreat to decide on a new wage mandate for the industry. Numerous speakers at the four hearings emphasized the executive pay and sizable revenue stream at some of the country’s…

EPI placed a full-page ad in the New York Post highlighting how a $15 minimum wage for the fast-food industry would lead restaurants to substitute touch-screen ordering systems for employees. The ad coincides with the fourth and final public hearing in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s wage board, which has…

When Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, she argued that the United States should “make sure our minimum wage is set to a level that works” for employees. Sen. Murray should start with her own staff–as should most of…

Minimum wage has another face. It’s the face of a protester holding the purple and yellow “SEIU” sign at protest rallies like those last Wednesday, but rather the face of a business owner forced to adapt his or her business model to comply with dramatic…

Remember Borderlands Books? This San Francisco independent book store had a near-death experience earlier this year, garnering national headlines for the news that it would shut down as a consequence of the city’s minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. Borderlands was saved by a unique customer fundraiser…

Our recent Wall Street Journal op-ed showcases the difficulties for small businesses in Oakland and San Francisco as a result of those cities raising (or about to raise) their minimum wages to $12.25 and $15 an hour, respectively. We argue that such consequences should serve as warnings to other…

This Thursday, a coalition of labor organizations and Rhode Island politicians will hold a press conference promoting an initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage for tipped employees by at least 211 percent by 2019. The legislative to accomplish this goal was introduced by Rep. Aaron Regunberg (D-Dist. 4, Providence).

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has advocated for raising the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Proponents argue that a minimum wage increase will, on net, be a benefit for Pennsylvania employees. One labor union-supported think tank even projected that a higher minimum wage would create jobs in the state. However, in a study…