Near-historic price increases for basics like food and gas have drawn scrutiny to a question at the heart of the economy: How much money must a worker make to stay afloat? The price of eggs has risen ...

*The pandemic-era economy has many unusual and uncertain features that have made it difficult to analyze. And one of the major open questions is what this economic period will do to wages and prices ...

When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you ...

HALF a million workers are set for a pay rise thanks to a Real Living Wage boost. Unlike the national minimum wage, employers ...

As they have every year for the past decade, San Diego’s minimum-wage workers will be getting a cost-of-living pay hike the first of the year, even as thousands of others employed in some of ...

"And if you're basing it off a median percentage that median is going to go up as the minimum wage goes up, meaning it will ...

Florida's minimum wage is $13. MIT has a calculator for the living wage needed for different areas across the country. Port St. Lucie has the second-highest percentage of cost-burdened renter ...

So really, a living wage depends on the household.

When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you ...