President Barack Obama has made raising the federal minimum wage a key component of his domestic agenda moving forward as he contemplates the final three years of his presidency and the nation’s still-recovering economy. Ideally, the president would like to see the federal minimum hourly wage increased from the current $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, […]
The debate over a federal minimum wage increase continues to rage in the United States, and is a hot-button issue for some constituencies. This, despite the fact that a visible majority of Democrats and a small, if measurable, majority of Republicans have been shown to support such an increase. Now the states themselves have entered […]
