minimum wage

New York state will gradually raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour -- the first time any state has set the minimum that high.

Menu prices are up 21 percent and you don't have to tip at Ivar's Salmon House on Seattle's Lake Union after the restaurant decided to institute the city's $15-an-hour minimum wage two years ahead of schedule.

Rallies in Newark and across the country Wednesday will make a case for paying service sector workers a wage of $15 per hour.

On Jan. 1 roughly 176,000 minimum wage workers in New Jersey will see a modest hourly pay increase based on the rate of inflation. On Monday, New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), a Trenton think tank, released a brief detailing the benefits of the wage hike while the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA) countered with the downside.

This is the kind of statement that can get a candidate into trouble, and many believe Gov. Chris Christie is a candidate for president.

A new study by the Center for Economic and Research Policy shows that job growth in states that have increased their minimum wage this year is far more robust when compared to states that did not hike the minimum wage.

It wasn’t long ago that Senate President Steve Sweeney was praising the New Jersey voters in favoring a hike in the minimum wage at the polls – raising it from 7.25 to 8.25 an hour with yearly adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index...

The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that gradually increases the minimum wage in the city to $15, which would make it the highest in the nation.

Several protesters were being arrested outside McDonald's headquarters on Wednesday, as hundreds demonstrated in a bid to call attention to the low pay earned by fast-food workers.

Shore-area businesses being hit with higher costs associated with the minimum wage increase could get some assistance, under proposed legislation.