A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay $23 million in back wages and penalties for violating Washington’s minimum wage law, after it paid detainees as little as $1 a day, a federal appeals ...

Washington was one of 21 states to implement an increase in minimum wage at the start of the new year. The wage went from $16.28 per hour to $16.66 per hour. Many student workers are receiving minimum ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center must be paid the state’s ...

A majority of the Ninth Circuit panel decried the private jail's attempt to argue federal law prohibits it from paying its ...

State Democratic lawmakers are pushing a bill that would allow Maryland voters to raise the minimum wage from $15 to $20 — including for workers in the service industry — but it’s receiving ...

New research in Contemporary Economic Policy indicates that rising minimum wages in a state are associated with reduced ...

Some 65 cities across the country rolled out wage increases at the start of the month, and restaurant owners are still ...

Washington state has a number of localities whose minimum wages have surpassed $20, including King County and Seattle.

The state’s minimum wage increased to $11.91 this month and will rise to ... New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Alaska, ...

A new bill under consideration in the General Assembly would put the measure on the November 2026 ballot for voters to decide whether to increase the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Bill proponents want ...

The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year, including South Dakota, even as the federal wage floor ...