Walmart CEO: Congress should hike federal minimum wage
Doug McMillon tells shareholders — and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — that $7.25 an hour clearly is "too low"
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Bernie Sanders to Walmart: Your workers need higher wages
The presidential candidate will attend Walmart's annual meeting to call on the Walton family to "end the greed"
Want to earn six figures? Consider working at Walmart
The world's biggest retailer is trumpeting the hefty paycheck its store managers can earn
Want to decrease suicide? Raise the minimum wage
Study finds that boosting workers' pay and offering more federal aid could prevent more than 1,000 suicides a year
2020 hopefuls rally around $15 minimum wage
Vice President Joe Biden is the latest White House candidate to embrace a national wage hike
Bank of America hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour
Raise comes as big bank CEOs prepare to appear before Congress to discuss the role of large financial firms
McDonald's now OK with raising the minimum wage
Fast-food powerhouse wants to "advance, not impede" debate over hiking U.S. rate above $7.25 for first time in decade
Entire staffs quit at Sonic drive-ins in Ohio
"Due to terrible management the whole store has quit," reads goodbye note taped to door of restaurant near Columbus
Is it true that Ivanka Trump created "millions" of jobs?
President Trump claimed Monday that his daughter, Ivanka Trump "has created millions of jobs"
N.J. becomes 4th state to increase minimum wage
The Garden State joins California, Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia in phasing in higher wages
Lawmakers push bill to boost minimum wage to $15 an hour
House Democrats are set to introduce legislation that would more than double the current federal baseline pay
5 million U.S. workers will get raises in 2019
Not waiting for the feds to take action, 20 states are set to boost their minimum wage on Jan. 1
Workers in these 20 states are getting a raise Jan. 1
More than half the states across the country now require higher minimum pay than the federal government's $7.25 an hour
Why "12 Days of Christmas" isn't keeping up with inflation
The cost of all the goods and services in the classic carol rose just 1.2% this year, thanks to one tarnished item
Voters in GOP-led states give themselves a raise
Missouri and Arkansas approve ballot measures to boost minimum wages for about 1 million workers
American workers are finally seeing a real bump in pay
Labor data show wage growth is accelerating at last, boosted by the lowest jobless rate in nearly half a century
$15 an hour: A higher wage, but hardly a living
Even doubling how much American workers earn per hour would still leave millions struggling to get by
$15 minimum wage may crimp Amazon's profit margin
Lower margins could make investors leery in the short term as Amazon digests the higher costs of a pay jump
Amazon's $15 an hour: Calls mount to make it the industry standard
Pressure is on Walmart, McDonald's and many others as a resurgent workers-rights movement gains ground
How Amazon's $15 wage could help lift pay elsewhere
The retail giant's minimum wage boost may have a ripple effect, pressuring other companies to lift wages
House candidate Rashida Tlaib arrested during wage protest in Detroit
Democrat Rashida Tlaib joined a group of several hundred people protesting for higher pay the right to form unions
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all U.S. workers
The pay hike comes after the online retail giant faced criticism for its treatment of warehouse workers
North Carolina acts deep blue in passing state worker minimum wage hike
At least four other states have steps already in place to increase pay for state workers to $15
Court OKs civil rights argument for minimum wage hike in Birmingham, Alabama
Federal Appeals Court rules that a state law forbidding localities from setting own wage standard is discriminatory
Disneyland boosts minimum wage to $15 an hour
The wage hike, which comes after park workers said they struggle with poverty, affects almost 10,000 workers
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