The minimum wage in Washington state will go up in 2024. The state's Department of Labor and Industries announced on Friday that the minimum wage will rise to $16.28 per hour, a 3.4% increase.

That wording doesn’t necessarily imply support for a large increase in the minimum wage. But the same poll found that 76% of Republicans and 91% of Democrats support boosting it to $12 an hour.

Although the Democratic presidential nominee hasn’t specified a number, her position is still way clearer than Donald Trump’s ...

It was nostalgic to read Alan Blinder’s op-ed “Washington Can Give America a Raise” (Aug. 21) and responding letters by David ...

Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for the seventh year in a row, starting in October, to $25 per hour. That equates to about $50,000 a year for a full-time U.S. employee.  Connecticut’s ...

A petition to raise the minimum wage in Burien has been declared legally insufficient after failing to collect enough valid ...

This isn’t speculation, it’s rooted in the data my University of Washington ... That’s an increase comparable to what smaller businesses might be facing if the minimum wage phase-in ...

But a provocative new paper by the Seattle Minimum Wage Study Team at the University of Washington suggests that ... city-level minimum-wage increase. The researchers had unprecedented access ...

Washington, D.C. has the highest rate overall ... Despite efforts to raise the minimum wage, no bill has successfully passed both chambers of Congress. Proponents of raising minimum wages argue ...

Raising the minimum wage is one of the most popular ways to fight poverty. It’s also one of the worst. Opinion: Positive ...

If you're making minimum wage, your paycheck is about to get bigger again. Florida's minimum wage will be rising again this ...

A full-time worker must put in 104 hours per week at the state’s current minimum wage to afford a two-bedroom rental in Colorado.