minimum wage increase
Mandated earnings boost
A minimum wage increase is a government-mandated rise in the lowest hourly pay employers can legally offer workers.
These increases occur through legislation or scheduled adjustments tied to inflation.
The topic generates political debate between those who see higher wages as essential for workers and those who worry about job losses or business costs: The city council approved a minimum wage increase to fifteen dollars an hour.
- hourlyOnce each sixty minutes
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- paycheck to paycheckNo savings between wages
- workersPeople doing jobs
- povertySevere lack of resources
tipped workers · working poor · livable · raise · labor · struggle · bills · overtime · tips · rent · unions · protests · fight · employers · small business · mom and pop · inflation · cost of living
- pay changesraise, pay raise, pay cut, salary bump, pay bump
- LBJ EraLBJ, Great Society, Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act
- Truman EraTruman, Truman Doctrine, Fair Deal, buck stops here, whistle-stop tour