State General News Archive

The Record, Minimum Wage hike proposed for NJ, 12/22/07

NEW: CHART UPDATED 10/31: States & Federal Minimum Wage 2007-09, PDF

Daily Kos blog, minimum wage

CCH, Florida's minimum wage to go up to $6.79 January 1, 10/29/07

Herald Tribune (FL), Impact of higher minimum wage in Sarasota unclear: Minimum wage boost for some in Sarasota is up for a vote Nov. 6, 10/26/07

John Burbank, A fair minimum wage stokes economic growth, Herald (WA), 10/17/07

CCH, Maine, Montana, Washington announce minimum wage increases, 10/12/07

hr.blr.com, 6 states adjust minimum wage, 10/9/07

Bellingham Herald, [Washington] State minimum wage to increase to $8.07, 10/2/07

Oregon Center for Public Policy, Job Growth Not Dampened by Minimum Wage Raises, Study Shows, 9/19/07

Stateline.org, Maryland launches first statewide living wage, 8/31/07

Press Release: At July 24 Capitol Hill Rally Let Justice Roll Leader Calls for Making Minimum Wage a Living Wage, 7/24/07

Press Release: Wage On: For Let Justice Roll, July 24 Minimum Wage Hike Is Just Step Toward Living Wage, 7/16/07

Economic Policy Institute, What a new federal minimum wage means for the states, 6/1/07

Press Release: Minimum Wage Raise Long Overdue Says Let Justice Roll, 5/25/07

Daytona Beach News Journal (FL) Editorial, For a living wage, 5/12/07

Baltimore Sun, Living wage becomes MD law, 5/9/07

Baltimore Sun, Maryland will be the first state to provide "living wage," 4/10/07

Bismarck Tribune (ND), Minimum wage bill signed, 4/3/07

Jomay Steen, Rapid City Journal (SD), More families in the state struggling to earn a living, 2/25/07

AP, Rural poor looking forward to proposed minimum wage hike: More than 10 percent of hourly workers in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi would benefit, 2/20/07

AP, Culver signs into law $7.25 [Iowa] minimum wage, 1/25/07
 
Fiscal Policy Institute, New York’s 2005-2007 minimum wage increases:
Good for the state’s workers, good for the economy, 1/22/07

Press Release: Hundreds of Business Leaders Tell Congress To Raise Minimum Wage, 1/19/07

Press Release: Over 1,000 Faith Leaders Urge Congress to Raise Minimum Wage, 1/08/07
 
 
Deseret News, Utah minimum wage may rise in '07, 11/25/06

Register-Guard (OR) Editorial, Testing wage theory, 11/24/06
 
Des Moines Register, Low-wage workers could be in line for a raise in '07, 11/24/06
 
Las Vegas Sun, Study: Health premiums rise 5 times faster than Nevada earnings, 11/22/06

Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley, Do Businesses Flee Citywide Minimum Wages: Evidence From San Francisco and Santa Fe, 9/06
 
HR.BLR, Vermont increases minimum wage, 11/14/06

Press Release: Business Leaders and Minimum Wage Organizers on Landslide Victories, What's Next? Post-Election Teleconference Highlights and Replay Available, 11/13/06

CNN Ballot Results and Exit Polls

Atlanta Journal Constitution Editorial, Minimum wage increase overdue: Help for lowest-paid workers won't put burden on businesses that employ them, 11/12/06

Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul readies living-wage law, 11/12/06

Silla Brush, US News & World Report, Minimum wage politics, 11/7/06

Washington Post, In Missouri a forecast for voter misery; In Ohio, rallying the Christian left, 11/6/06
 
Op-Ed: Michelle Zundel, What the minimum wage means to college students, Salt Lake Tribune, 11/4/06

Op-Ed: Stewart Acuff and Maude Hurd, Doing the job Congress wouldn't, 10/31/06

Press Release:  Business Owners, CEOs Say Higher Minimum Wage Good for Business, 10/31/06

Marie Cocco, Waging past minimum, Truthdig, 10/30/06

Jack Ventimiglia, Editor, Johnson County Sun (KS), High tide raises all boats, or should, 10/26/06

Economic Policy Institute, Economic Effects of State Minimum Wage Increases, 10/25/06
 
Economic Policy Institute, Making sense of the minimum wage, Press Release with State Research Contacts, 10/25/06

Axcess News, Nevada minimum wage question likely to pass despite objections, 10/24/06

Op-Ed: Premilla Nadasen, Enact 'living wages,' Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 10/22/06

Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, The Moral Minimum, 11/6/06

Montgomery Advertiser/AP, Minimum wage a common issue, 10/8/06

Topeka Capital-Journal (KS), Pastor fighting poverty [Paul Sherry], 9/28/06

Press Release: Let Justice Roll Mobilizes Values Voters with Hundreds of Minimum Wage Events Across U.S.: October "Living Wage Days" Build Momentum for Ballot Measures in Arizona, Colorado, Misouri, Montana and Ohio, 9/27/06

Stateline, Minimum wage hikes sweep states, 9/22/06
 
AP, Group says too few Oregon jobs provide living wage for families, 9/21/06
 
Minnesota Daily, U. of Minn, Minimum recognition for hard work, 9/20/06

Reno Gazette-Journal (NV), Voters favor minimum wage increase, 9/16/06
 
The Oregonian, Oregon minimum wage to rise: Indexing will push it to $7.80 next year, 9/16/06
 
Release: [Labor Commissioner] Gardner announces a 30-cent cost of living increase for Oregon's minimum wage workers, 9/15/06

Stateline, 2006 is year of surpluses, social issues, 9/14/06
 

Tom Kenworthy, USA Today, Minimum wage laws multiply in states and Wage debate pits workers vs. businesses, 9/12/06

Chicago Tribune, Hawaii awash in an epidemic of homelessness, 9/11/06

Brian Lewis, News Leader (MO), Religious call goes out to friends of the working class, 9/6/06

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Rally sheds light on living wage, 9/6/06
 
Mike Ivey, Madison Capital Times, Wage gap widens as CEOs rake in dough, 9/5/06

Houston Chronicle, Will state follow others raising minimum wage?, 9/4/06
 
Sioux City Journal (IA), Rising profits for companies does not translate to high worker pay, 9/3/06

Time, Where to get a pay raise, 8/21/06
 
Ron Eachus, Statesman Journal (OR), Legislators kowtow to rich by trying to kill estate tax, 8/14/06
 
 
Lawrence Ledger (NJ), Council to consider [Big Box] living wage ordinance, 8/10/06

The Oregonian Editorial, A tax cut for a few, A wage cut for the West, 8/3/06

Business Week, Wal-Mart foes hop a bandwagon, 8/2/06

Washington Post, States hike minimum wage as Congress battles, 8/1/06

Nathan Newman, Progressive States Network, The US House minimum wage CUT bill, 7/31/06

Brennan Center, H.R. 5970 and the State Ballot Initiatives, 7/31/06

Philadelphia Inquirer, Latino voting gets push, 7/26/06

Pamela Brogan, Springfield News-Leader (MO), States move to raise minimum wage: "Nobody working full time should have to live in poverty," 7/24/06

Beauregard Daily News/AP, [LA] State employees get minimum wage hike, 7/23/06
 
Bangor Daily News (ME), Making it on the minimum, 7/22/06

Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wage hike sparks economic gain, researchers say, 7/21/06

Bayou Buzz, Louisiana State employees to receive more than federal minimum wage, 7/19/06

Press Release: Let Justice Roll Raising State Minimum Wages, Pushing Federal Hike, 7/13/06

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Together, State Minimum Wages and State Earned Income Tax Credits Make Work Pay, 7/12/06

Mara Liasson, NPR Morning Edition, Dems back state plans to increase minimum wage, 7/12/06

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Spokane initiative would require better pay for 'big box' workers, 7/11/06

Report prepared by the Office of Sen. Kennedy, When Work Doesn't Pay: Minimum Wage Families In America: A View from the States, 6/29/06

Register-Guard (OR) Editorial, Doing the minimum, 6/28/06

John Carson, Bogalusa Daily News (LA), Politicians, lobbies miss the point on minimum wage, 6/27/06

Brennan Center, Fact Sheet: Large Retailer Living Wage Laws, 6/22/06

Delaware News Journal, Legislature approves $1 minimum wage increase [from $6.15 to $6.65 on 1/1/07, $7.15 on 1/1/08], 6/22/06

Boston Globe (AP), Rhode Island Lawmakers consider bills designed to lower health insurance costs [family health insurance premiums can cost as much as RI minimum wage workers earn full-time], 6/20/06

Times-Picayune (LA), Legislature ends regular session [rejects min wage increase], 6/19/06
 
Shreveport Times (LA), State's lowest paid workers won't get raise, 6/17/06

The New Standard, Activists find momentum lifting wage floors, 6/13/06

La Crosse Tribune (WI), Lincoln Middle School students organize food drive to fill pantry, 6/12/06

CNN Money, States give low-wage workers a raise, 6/8/06

Progressive States Network, Beyond the minimum wage: New policies to raise wages, 6/5/06

Jordan Barab, AlterNet, Center for Union Lies, 6/5/06

Chicago Tribune, States leading way to boost minimum pay, 6/4/06

Madison Capital Times (WI), Minimum wage hike [to $6.50] ends political fight, 6/1/06

Shreveport Times, Louisiana Senate votes to raise minimum wage to $6.15 an hour, 6/1/06

Report: John Burton and Amy Hanauer, Center for American Progress and Policy Matters Ohio, Good For Business: Small Business Growth and State Minimum Wages, 5/06

Report: Paul K. Sonn, Brennan Center, Citywide Minimum Wage Laws: A New Policy Tool for Local Governments, 5/06

News-Journal (DE), Assembly has little time for a lot of work, 5/30/06
 
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial, Accountability for poverty, 5/29/06
 

Charlotte Observer, States see more jobs despite wage hike, 5/27/06
 
Inc.com, Ignoring Washington, states push ahead with minimum wage hikes, 5/26/06

American Prospect, Farm Aid [farmworkers' union], 5/22/06

Charisse Jones, USA Today, States aim to raise minimum wage, 5/9/06

Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) Editorial, Minimum Wage Works, 5/8/06

South Florida Business Journal, FIU: No negative effects from minimum wage ordinance, 5/3/06
 
Florida Today, Bill may end wage hikes, 5/3/06
 
ProgressiveU.org, Hexhunterkid's blog, McNickled and McDimed: Welcome to the new economy, 5/1/06

The Nation Editor's Blog, Sweet Victory: Arkansas gets a raise, Who's next?, 4/28/06

Quad City Times (IA), Blouin calls for increasing minimum pay, 4/21/06

Justin Vicory, The Vanguard, University of South Alabama, Do the right thing - raise the minimum wage, 4/19/06

Rick S. Bender, Washington State Labor Council, The verdict is in: Higher minimum wages DO NOT kill jobs, 4/06

Boston Globe (AP), Maine: Governor signs bill to hike hourly minimum wage to $7, 4/13/06

Froma Harrop, TomPaine.com, Why Minimum Wage Wins, 4/13/06

Business Support for Minimum Wage: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, Forum to focus on social responsibility, Rutland Herald, 4/9/06

Washington Post, [Fairfax County, VA] Board to Consider 'Living Wage' Measure, 4/4/06

Bangor Daily News (ME), House, Senate disagree on minimum wage bill [ongoing reader poll], 4/6/06

Report: Fiscal Policy Institute, States with Minimum Wages above the Federal Level have had Faster Small Business and Retail Job Growth, 3/30/06

Op-Ed: Richard Ray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minimum wage increase overdue, 3/30/06

Investor's Business Daily, GOP Lawmakers Try To Defuse Minimum Wage Ballot Proposals, 3/16/06 [perpetuates myths about min wage]

Bangor Daily News, Higher wage bill on path to state Ok, 3/8/06

Op-Ed: John Buell, Bangor Daily News (ME), Magic of the market vs. the minimum wage, 3/7/06 

DC wins living wage [to $11.75; minimum wage is $7], 3/7/06

The Nation Editor's Blog, Sweet Victory: The states are sick of waiting, 3/3/06

Morning Sentinel (ME) Letter to Ed.-Higher minimum wage good for many Mainers

AP/Gainesville Sun (FL), Coalition campaigners battle limits on initiatives, 3/2/06

Catholic News Service, As U.S. workers get squeezed, who will stand up for them?, 2/24/06

Susan Strother Clarke, Orlando Sentinel, Wage goes up, no Armageddon, 2/22/06

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Minimum Wage Gearing Up to Be Major Issue in the Mid-Term Elections, 2/14/06

Virginian-Pilot Editorial, Raise the floor on minimum pay, 1/27/06

Brigham Young University NewsNet, Religious leaders urge minimum wage increase, 1/20/06
 
Washington Times, Politicians seeking jobs give workers a break, 1/20/06

Rhode Island AFL-CIO, RI gets a minimum wage raise

Baltimore Sun, Minimum wage rise passes [Maryland 18th state above federal level], 1/18/06

WKCR (New York) News, New York State minimum wage increase, Interview with Holly Sklar, 1/5/06

New York Times, States take lead in push to raise minimum wage,
1/2/06

Also see State Campaigns