A 1994 paper blew up the consensus that minimum-wage increases kill jobs. Economists have been at each other’s throats ever ...

The federal minimum wage currently sits at $7.25 an hour, as it has since 2009. A new proposal in New York City wants to ...

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Twenty states increased their minimum wage at the start of 2026, was Louisiana one of them? Here's what states increased wages, and whether Louisiana may join them.

Democrats may not have pulled off the political upset of the 21st century in the recent special election in Tennessee, but Republican Matt Van Epps’ single-digit margin of victory in a much-watched ...