by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2014 | Minimum Wage
The Gap announced this week it is raising the minimum wage that it will pay employees. Walmart said it is considering doing the same. Last year voters in New Jersey and many municipalities passed minimum wage increases. President Obama ordered federal contractors to...
by Bill Scher | Feb 20, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Over at The New Republic, Danny Vinik notes that the Republicans are attacking President Obama's approach for raising incomes with a higher minimum wage, ostensibly for fear of job losses. Yet Republicans refuse to coalesce around any alternatives for either raising...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 18, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Here's what you need to keep in mind about the Congressional Budget Office report that is generating headlines that a $10.10 minimum wage could cost 500,000 jobs: That report is not the indictment that it is being made out to be in the mainstream media and by...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 14, 2014 | Minimum Wage
President Obama signed an executive order on Wednesday raising the minimum wage for some federally contracted workers to $10.10. This move illustrates the fact that we need a higher minimum wage for all workers. It also promotes the bill by Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep....
by Richard Long | Feb 13, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Today, 2/13, is the day before Valentine’s Day. $2.13 is the base wage at which tipped employees must be paid, implemented in 1991. This means that there is a strong likelihood that the server of your Friday evening Valentine’s dinner would not be able to purchase a...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 12, 2014 | Minimum Wage
President Obama is signing an executive order today raising the minimum wage for federal contractors from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. The order will also raise the "tipped" minimum wage for these contractors to $4.90 from $2.13 an hour. These minimums will increase with...
