minimum wage

hillary clinton

Hillary Clinton’s wage gap hypocrisy

A Hillary Clinton Political Action Committee recently released an ad — undoubtedly the first of many — aimed at persuading American women they have no choice but to support her in November. This commercial strings together a selection of Trump's most off-putting statements, calling women fat and flat-chested, and otherwise

overtime

Obama explains new OT rule for salaried workers

(CNSNews.com) – In his weekly address released Saturday, President Barack Obama explained a new federal regulation finalized this week by the Department of Labor that will required employers to pay overtime to salaried workers who make less than $47,500 per year. The federal-regulation-mandated overtime will kick in once the

overtime

New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices

NEW YORK (AP) — The government's new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices. The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid

Massachusetts

Union says state contract will get care attendants to $15 an hour

STATE HOUSE — The union representing the state's 35,000 personal care attendants and the Baker administration have agreed to a three-year contract that will provide a 44-cent raise this summer and open a path to a $15 an hour minimum wage for PCAs by 2018, the union announced

Donald Trump

Trump flip flops on raising taxes, minimum wage

Donald Trump's vacillation over hiking taxes on the wealthy and boosting the minimum wage opened huge target zones for critics from both the left and the right, and fed concerns among voters – even committed conservative Republicans – that they can't trust the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. In

economics

‘Fight for $15’ moves to Bay State, but economists remain split

BOSTON – Activists who successfully fought for a $15 minimum wage increase in California and New York now have their sights set on the Bay State. The Massachusetts minimum wage, currently set at $10 per hour (the highest in the nation, along with Vermont and California), is scheduled to increase to

Democrats

Labor Secretary wants to move forward with $12 minimum wage

(CNSNews.com) – Labor Secretary Tom Perez joined lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday to promote a Senate bill introduced last year by Democrats that would increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $12 an hour by 2020, saying the legislation would "move they ball forward" toward "