Minimum wages are scheduled to increase in 22 states between late 2019 and the start of 2020, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
January 8, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a champion of raising the national minimum wage to $15, said workers in every region will soon need that amount to maintain a modest but adequate standard of living.
NACS
January 8, 2020
- Fourteen states have hiked their minimum wages, with an additional seven states experiencing an automatic cost-of-living raise to the minimum threshold. That’s nearly 7 million employees who got a pay raise on January 1, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Three more states and Washington, D.C., will increase their minimum wage during 2020.
Daily Press
January 8, 2020
“You had an extended period with no change [in the federal minimum wage],” said Cooper, senior economic adviser at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based think tank that focuses on low- and middle-income workers. “You had two cities recognizing their workers needed more than the minimum. They were really at the front of the pack. They have been vindicated.”
Santa Fe New Mexican
January 8, 2020
Lawmakers in six states — California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York— have enacted legislation that will eventually bring their state minimum wages to $15 an hour, the Economic Policy Institute said.
Times-Gazette
January 8, 2020
Nationwide, minimum wages will go up in 22 states in the new year, increasing pay for 6.8 million workers across the country, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Dayton Daily News
January 8, 2020
According to analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, an estimated 173,000 workers in New Hampshire — more than a quarter of the state’s workforce — would benefit from the adoption of a $15 by 2024 minimum wage.
Fosters.com
January 8, 2020
About 8 percent of Maine’s 679,000 workers earned at or below minimum wage in 2018, according to available state labor data. The Economic Policy Institute, a national left-leaning nonprofit focused on issues affecting lower- and middle-income workers, puts that figure much higher, estimating 102,900 workers in Maine will directly benefit from the 2020 wage increase because they currently earn less than $12 an hour. That will translate into a pay jump of $1,266, on average, for those workers during the year, according to the analysis.
Portland Press Herald
January 8, 2020
A majority of the country will start seeing larger figures on their pay stubs — more than 20 states and 26 cities and counties have increased their minimum wage. In some states, including Florida and Ohio, the increases are automatic adjustments to account for inflation, while raises in other states, such as Michigan and Arkansas, are the result of either legislation passed by state houses or ballot measures approved by voters, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
ABC News
January 8, 2020
That means more than 153,000 workers in Missouri will see an 85 cents per hour pay increase, according to the Economic Policy Institute ,
KSHB (Kansas City)
January 8, 2020