living wage

Washington will see the highest minimum wage among US states at $16.28 per hour.

Financial realities and lifestyle options are compelling young Canadians to live in the downtown cores of the country’s cities.

A $22 minimum wage would reflect increases in worker productivity in the United States since the 1960s, says Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Minimum wage in the United States lags considerably behind Luxembourg, but is far ahead of Burundi.

More than three-fourths of registered voters in New York state support a rise in minimum wage by $1.25 per hour but oppose giving pay raises to state lawmakers by a margin of 65 percent to 21 percent.

After almost two years since its introduction to City Council, the hotly contested Living Wage Bill passed on Monday by a vote of 45–5.

Private companies working on publicly subsidized contracts will likely soon have to start paying at least a living wage to their employees, which is $10 an hour with benefits and $11.50 without.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn unveiled on Friday the details of a new living wage bill that will be introduced next month.

Almost three-quarters of respondents say the living wage proposal before the city council is a “good idea” in a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, Dec. 14.