A majority of Goodwill entities in the United States pay people with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, while these same Goodwills simultaneously spend tens of millions of dollars per year on executive compensation and travel-related expenses.

Walmart CEO Mike Duke makes approximately $11,000 an hour. Think about that -- $11,000 every hour. Think about an hour of your day, the tasks you accomplish, and the compensation you receive from your employer.

Only 4.7 percent of all hourly U.S. workers were paid at or below the federal minimum in 2012, down from 5.2 percent of all hourly workers in 2011, th...

President Barack Obama's recent proposal to raise the federal minimum wage has been met with opposition from top Republican lawmakers and business lea...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama called on lawmakers to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour. What Obama didn'...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that raising the minimum wage, as he has proposed, might trim corporate profits...

Minimum-wage workers make more money working in France or Australia than they do in the United States. At $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage ...

President Obama's call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of the Un...

The payroll tax increase that went into effect at the beginning of the year stands to offset significantly the President's proposal to raise the feder...

The real problem in our economy today is not a lack of productivity. The problem is that the gains from productivity growth have not been broadly shared. The wealthy have used their power to rig the deck so that most of the benefits of growth have gone those at the top. They have used their control of trade policy, the Federal Reserve Board, and more recently the Wall Street bailout, to ensure that those at the top have gained at the expense of everyone else. A higher minimum wage is an important step toward reversing this rigging. It should not be too much to expect that workers today should get at least as much as they did 45 years ago, and perhaps some dividend to allow them to share in the benefits of economic growth over this period. A minimum wage of $10 an hour would be a big step in the right direction.

When someone brings up the idea of a raise in the federal minimum wage, you hear a huge outcry from some in the business lobby. Their generic argument is that the increase will lead to job losses among those low-wage workers affected by the higher wage level. Yet, you hear the opposite from groups that represent low-wage workers interests. So the DC lobby that represents low-wage employers say they're against an increase, not because it would raise labor costs and cut into profits, but because it's bad for the workers themselves, who will suffer reduced hours and layoffs. But the workers' groups say, "Bring it on!" So what's best for the middle class in this economy -- who you gonna believe?

WASHINGTON -- Eight states will be raising their minimum wage next week, boosting the pay of more than a million workers across the country. Most ...