In a recent letter to the editor, a person asked, “Whoever said the minimum wage should be a living wage?” The answer is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when the original minimum-wage law was ...

1) Myth: The minimum wage was never supposed to be a living wage This is probably one of the most dangerous—and easy to debunk—myths about the minimum wage, which was championed by Franklin D ...

Theodore Roosevelt said it best: “No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day’s ...

Minimum wage: G. Wayne Waters (Letters to the Editor, Jan. 21) argues that "the employer should be the determining factor" in how much workers are paid. But we've been down that road in the United ...

Minimum wage workers employed full-time earn just $15,000 a year, falling under the poverty line for a family of two. If the 1968 minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, it would be US$10.90 today.

The US$1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that the House just passed includes a gradual increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. While its chances in the Senate appear slim ...

Living costs vary substantially across the U.S., as much as 20% above or below the average, which means the same federal minimum wage is worth a lot more in low-cost states than in high-cost ones.