The Latest Breaking News from Minimum Wage

How Much Money Would Workers Have If the Minimum Wage Kept Up With Inflation?

If minimum wage matched 1968 purchasing power, you'd earn $421,200 more over 30 years. With productivity adjustments, the gap reaches $670K-$1M in earnings.

GOBankingRates · Nov 9, 2025

‘A job is like finding a needle in a haystack’: how Dudley became centre of UK’s youth jobs crisis

Almost one in five school-leavers in West Midlands town are not in education, employment or training and chancellor is under pressure to deliver promised ‘youth guarantee’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2025

Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by Raising the Minimum Wage, but It Hasn’t — for 16 Years

1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that has become a pawn in the government shutdown.

Capital & Main · Nov 6, 2025

The Left's Secret Repeal of No Taxes on Tips

Progressive cities are scrapping the tipped-wage credit, shifting workers from tax-free tips to taxable wages, and likely leading to lower take-home pay.

Reason · Oct 30, 2025

If New York Costs $113K a Year, How Could You Afford To Live There?

Find out more about New York's cost of living and exactly how you could afford to live there.

GOBankingRates · Oct 27, 2025

Labour urged to rethink scrapping minimum wage youth rates amid ‘Neets’ rise

Thinktank fears 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training could be ‘priced out’ of entry-level jobs

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2025

Keep age-based minimum wage to help young people into work, says think tank

Rachel Reeves has been urged to scrap plans to abolish the lower minimum wage rates for under-21s.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025

Over 65 London employers including a council fined £1.6m after 7,400 workers paid less than minimum wage

London firms have been fined £1.6million and told to backpay thousands of workers after failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2025

Nearly 500 firms fined for failing to pay minimum wage

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The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2025

Holland & Barrett and British Gas owner among firms fined for underpaying staff

The Department for Business and Trade released a list of 491 employers that underpaid workers over several years.

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2025