Great news, laid-off Wall Streeters, minimum wage work just a got bit more lucrative! As of yesterday, the new minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
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Minimum Wage Soars To $6.55, Working Poor Still Too Impoverished To Celebrate
By 7.26.08
Great news, minimum wage workers: if you spend the next year working without getting sick or, um, going on vacation, you’ll make $13,624! Uncle Sam’s $0.70 minimum wage hike is the second of three to take effect before next summer, but the meager raise is hardly a godsend for the working poor.
Minimum Wage Rates Across The Country
By 7.24.07
With all this talk about the new minimum wage we thought we’d take a look at the state minimum wage rates from across the country.
Minimum Wage Bumps Up To $5.85 This Week
By 7.21.07
The federal minimum wage is rising to $5.85 this week, up from $5.15. The change is part of a plan to give minimum-wage workers an additional 70 cent boost each summer until 2009, when the minimum wage will be $7.50, or about $15,000 a year before taxes and without taking time off.
Blogobitchin!
By 7.31.06
• A certain big blue box retailer uses fake statistics in ads to argue against minimum wage increases. Color me classy. [Beachwood Reporter]
