By: Melanie Day | Power98FM | Aug 8, 2022 This is a startling statistic. If you work a minimum wage job in South Carolina you’d have to work 106 per week to afford the average rent. That number comes from the National Low Income Housing Coalition‘s 2022 Out of Reach report. The purpose is to

By: Julia Kaye | KELO | Aug 8, 2022 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — In no state can a full-time minimum-wage worker afford a modest two-bedroom rental home. (Read More)

By: Dani Romero | Yahoo!Finance | Aug 6, 2022 It’s been 13 years since Congress raised the federal minimum wage, the longest period without an increase since 1938. A recent Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis found that after adjusting for inflation, the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is now worth less than

By: Kate Merriman | WGAL8 | Aug 5, 2022 Changes to Pennsylvania’s minimum wage went into effect Friday. These changes primarily impact tipped workers. “As a former service industry worker, I have seen firsthand how employees can be taken advantage of due to outdated rules and regulations when it comes to how they are paid,”

Aug 4, 2022 The Government made official the call to the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary Commission and unemployment benefits to increase the current amount, $47.850, ante the high inflation that until June accumulated 64% in 12 months. It will be August 18. at 12, virtually. The formalization of the call took place a day after the

By: Itzel Luna | Los Angeles Times | Aug 4, 2022 Long Beach this week became the fourth city in Southern California to move forward with an ordinance to increase the minimum wage to $25 for healthcare workers in the private sector. Following in the steps of Los Angeles, Downey, and Monterey Park, the Long