In 2018, Utah became the first state to pass what was then called a Free-Range Kids law. Since then, seven other states have followed suit, passing what are now known as "Reasonable Childhood ...

The standard minimum wage in Michigan is rising to $10.56 an hour starting Jan. 1, the first of two scheduled increases to the base wage in the state slated this year. Starting Jan. 1, the hourly ...

As a result, 70% of UT students graduate debt free. On top of all this, Utah Tech offers the lowest university tuition in the state, making college, in fact, affordable. Utah Tech University’s ...

MIAMI — Minimum-wage workers in Florida will see a subtle increase in their paycheck in 2025 thanks to a state constitutional amendment approved by voters nearly five years ago. In 2020 ...

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his presidential campaign, President Biden pledged to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an ...

New York’s minimum wage gets a 50-cent bump in January, to $16.50 in Westchester, New York City and Long Island and $15.50 in the rest of the state. This will be the first of two 50-cent ...

This New Year’s Day, the state minimum wage will increase to $12.41 an hour, up from $12. The change is a result of legislation passed by the General Assembly in 2020 that stated if the ...

South Africa introduced a national minimum ... dictate the wage which an employer is willing and able to pay its employees and not artificially, legislatively set it outside of free market powers ...

The minimum wage has increased in 21 states, according to the National Employment Law Project. The hikes took effect in the following states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut ...

Taxes on minimum wage jobs will have effectively doubled in just a decade after the Labour government’s increased payroll levy comes into effect, according to research by a conservative think tank.

The president has already curtailed affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs – and a controversial Biden-era order that raised the minimum wage for workers on covered ...