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In May, the Los Angeles City Council voted to delay the city’s “Olympic” $30 minimum wage after hearing from local hotels that it was hurting employment and business operations. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows LA’s hotel minimum wage ordinance has been stunting hotel industry employment for…

It’s that time of year again – school is almost out and teens are looking for a summer job. But the latest data shows in states like California, nearly a quarter of teens hoping for a summer position may be unable to find one. Entry-level jobs, often starting out at…

In a Boston Globe op-ed this week, Arindrajit Dube argued for a minimum wage model that would push wage floors substantially higher in many states. Dube, a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, is among a small group of economists who contend that large minimum wage…

Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a promise to raise the Big Apple’s minimum wage to $30 an hour. Now that he’s the mayor, a $30 proposal is currently before the City Council. Over a decade ago, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo pushed a $15 minimum wage in the city – and the law…

Recent proposals at the federal, state, and local level are pushing for increasingly higher minimum wage rates. A majority of these efforts more than double the existing minimum wage, raising the mandate up to $15 in places like Oklahoma, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, while a bill in Congress proposes a $25…

This week, House progressives Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) and Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) unveiled a new proposal to raise the federal minimum wage up to $25 an hour. Proponents – including several unions and anti-tip credit organization One Fair Wage – say this hourly rate is intended to address the…

Lawmakers are once again pushing to raise Ohio’s minimum wage to $15. Proposals like this are nothing new to the state. A similar push in 2024 unraveled into what state officials called a “goat rodeo of a campaign,” reinforcing that a $15 wage mandate faces an uphill battle in…

Colorado may be known for its cold winters, but when it comes to wage mandates, the state has become one of the hottest debates in the country. Boulder is the latest flashpoint. As local leaders weigh changes to the tipped wage, the debate exposes an ongoing problem with Colorado’s…

Things will be heating up this summer as Oklahoma voters head to the polls to decide State Question 832, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, an increase that would more than double the current $7.25 wage floor. If voters are looking for clues about…

April 1 marked the two year anniversary of California’s harmful $20 fast food wage law. While government data shows the hike has cost the state tens of thousands of jobs and double-digit price hikes, UC Berkeley’s union-funded Institute for Research on Labor and Employment is back downplaying the impacts…