Minimum wage in America: How many people are earning $7 25 an hour?
admin2024-09-12T19:50:14-04:00Thirteen states have minimum wages equal to the federal minimum, and two states – Wyoming and Georgia – have minimum wages below the federal minimum wage. The minimum wage has been raised twenty-two times since 1938’s $0.25. We’re currently in the longest period since an increase has been applied to the minimum wage, which was last raised in July 2009. In 2021, the Biden-Harris administration signed an executive order to raise the minimum wage to $15 for federal contractors. Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established a mandatory federal minimum wage of 25 cents [...]