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January 29, 2023

minimum wage

Article

Target seeks to entice workers with pay of up to $24 an hour

March 4, 2022 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour […]

Article

HARSANYI: AOC’s terrible minimum wage argument

March 20, 2021 David Harsanyi

“It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently tweeted. “Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD’s workers in Denmark are paid […]

Article

Costco to raise starting hourly wage to $16; end hazard pay

March 5, 2021 Alexandra Olson, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Costco will increase its starting wage to $16 an hour, surpassing most of its main competitors. Costco CEO Craig Jelinek announced the increase Thursday at a Senate Budget Committee hearing, led by […]

Article

Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

March 3, 2021 Alan Fram, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid […]

Article

COVID-19 bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides

February 26, 2021 Alan Fram, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill […]

Business

Target permanently raises starting hourly pay to $15

June 19, 2020 Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Target Corp. says it’s permanently increasing starting hourly wages for its workers to $15 beginning July 5, several months ahead of schedule. In 2017, the Minneapolis-based company had set a goal to […]

Opinion

HILL: A man walks into a $15/hour minimum wage restaurant in Seattle 

July 24, 2019 Frank Hill

Washington State in the summer is the place to be if you are from hot, sticky, humid North Carolina. So is Maine.  The high at Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Forest last Friday was a chilly 49 degrees. […]

Business

Walmart raises minimum wage, announces bonus, closure of 10% of Sam’s Club locations

January 11, 2018 Emily Roberson

NEW YORK — Walmart on Thursday said it will raise entry-level wages for U.S. hourly employees to $11 an hour in February as it benefits from last month’s major corporate tax cut and on the […]

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