In 2021, the minimum wage in Flagstaff will be $15. In Arkansas, the minimum wage increased from $10 to $11 effective January 1. Highway in Arkansas in 2010.

For the first three decades after the minimum wage was established in 1938, it roughly kept pace with average wage and with productivity growth, rising from 25 cents at the outset to $1.60 in 1968.

The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour hasn’t budged since 2009, and as of 2021, 20 US states will continue to have a minimum wage either equal to or below the federal level, making $7.25 ...

Activists hold signs calling for Congress to includes a $15 federal minimum wage in a a COVID-19 relief bill outside the U.S. Capitol complex in Washington on Feb. 25, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, ...

The wage hikes in 2021 "are an indication that people understand how much the $7.25 federal minimum wage keeps people in poverty," said Holly Sklar, the CEO of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, a ...

A legislative change last year saw Vermont raise its minimum wage $0.79 an hour at the start of 2021 to $11.75. In 2022, the minimum wage will increase again to $12.55 an hour.

States with higher minimum wages saw faster employment growth in the leisure and hospitality industry. Beginning in early 2021, COVID-19 vaccines became increasingly available, changing the ...

In Georgia, low-wage service sector workers and their employers are wrestling with the details, and morality, of a $15 minimum wage. Feb. 26, 2021 A customer leaves the Foxy Loxy Cafe.