In 1973, 50 years ago, the minimum wage in Illinois was $1.40 – about $9.99 in 2023 dollars. It rose to $2.10 by 1976, $2.30 by 1979, $2.65 by 1984, and $3.35 by 1985. This more or less kept up with inflation, as $3.35 in July 1985 dollars is the equivalent of $9.45 in ...
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25 states across the country will be raising the minimum wage in 2020. Find out which states are getting an increase.
France also meets the 60 percent target for the minimum to median wage ratio, as do Bulgaria, Portugal, and Slovenia. The latter country is also the sole EU member meeting the 50 percent target for the minimum wage relative to the mean wage ratio. All other countries are relatively far ...
Not all workers are sold on the idea of raising the tipped wage. A little over two years ago, Steve Marandola, 50, moved from New Jersey to Bellingham, Washington, where the tipped wage is now $11 an hour. Marandola has worked in the restaurant industry for 30 years and currently works...
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America gave up it's freedom long ago in favor a nanny state so that no one is accountable or responsible for their own decisions. The minimum wage is just another example of this. Why not a minimum wage of $20/hr, or $50, or whatever? Raising the minimum wage only raises the cost...
The minimum wage is going up across Silicon Valley in January, but it won’t be high enough to cover the rising expenses of daily living.
2 years ago on March 15, 2023 By Marcus Lu Graphics/Design: Sam Parker Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Email Mapped: Minimum Wage Around the World The purpose of a minimum wage is to establish a baseline income level for workers in a given jurisdiction. Ideally it’s enough to ...
Opponents of this idea today made the same arguments and dire predictions four years ago. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now. The $15 minimum wage bill I recently reintroduced, like the one that took effect in 2013, contains several compromises to assuage the concerns of some of ...