Latest minimum wage

Business

Uber to give UK drivers minimum wage, pension, holiday pay

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Uber is giving its U.K. drivers the minimum wage, ... Read more

Business

Rescue aid package may reduce inequality, but for how long?

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have celebrated President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 ... Read more

Business

Senate Dems strike jobless aid deal, relief bill OK in sight

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin struck a ... Read more

Business

Biden urges Senate Dems to rally behind $1.9T virus bill

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to rally ... Read more

Business

Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their ... Read more

Business

Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that ... Read more

Business

House passes $1.9T pandemic bill on near party-line vote

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill early ... Read more

Business

Highlights of the COVID-19 relief bill advancing in Congress

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package early ... Read more

Business

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

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to ... Read more

News

No raise for low-wage workers

Struggling families on losing end of Senate committee’s vote BATON ROUGE — Legislation that would have raised the ... Read more