Next year’s minimum wage hikes are the legacy of sustained political pressure by advocates for low-wage workers, said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, a state economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
“We’re more than a decade into the Fight for $15 movement, which started out with worker organizing in New York City among fast-food workers,” he said.
Nearly half of U.S. workers will live in states with a $15 an hour minimum wage or higher by 2027, Hickey said.
Marketplace
January 8, 2025
Across the country, more than nine million U.S. workers will start seeing bigger paychecks in 2025 because of the changes, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Scripps news
January 8, 2025
The raise in Ohio will affect more than 300,000 people, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for workers. The institute’s research shows that almost 90% of people benefitting from all state increases this year are adults, 58% are women and 20% are in families living below the federal poverty line.
Signal Cleveland
January 8, 2025
Workers across 21 states and 48 individual cities are scheduled to get a pay raise on New Year’s Day.
The Economic Policy Institute says roughly 9.2 million workers will see their wages raised by a total of $5.7 billion.
News 4 San Antonio
January 8, 2025
Hourly minimum wages increased in 21 states on Wednesday, as part of ongoing efforts to have pay keep up with the rising cost of living or to meet milestones such as a $15-an-hour minimum wage. The increases, which range from .18 cents to $1.75, are expected to affect more than 9.2 million workers, raising their pay by a combined $5.7 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNN Business
January 8, 2025
State laws that index the minimum wage to inflation are behind 13 of the January increases, according to the Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, a nonprofit think tank. Legislation spurred the coming pay hikes in six states, while ballot measures ushered in wage gains in two.
Nearly one in five, or 20%, of the more than 9.2 million impacted workers reside in households below the poverty line, while nearly half, or almost 49%, have family incomes below twice the poverty line, EPI estimates.
CBS Moneywatch
January 8, 2025
Twenty-one states will raise their minimum wages on Jan. 1, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and the tenor of the news stories is that this boost to worker paychecks is an economic free lunch. The unseen effect will be added pressure on many businesses to cut hours, increase prices, and automate away opportunities for unskilled workers seeking a first job.
Wall Street Journal
January 8, 2025
In all, 21 states will raise their wage floors on Jan. 1 in keeping with inflation-adjusted increases or as part of scheduled hikes that take effect at the beginning of each calendar year.
The pay increases will affect about 9.2 million workers, who will gain a combined $5.7 billion over the course of 2025, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, or EPI.
ABC News
January 8, 2025
According to the nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI), more than 9.2 million workers saw a raise in their minimum wage paychecks starting on Jan. 1. They will receive a total of $5.7 billion more pay in 2025.
Investopedia
January 8, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, hourly minimum wages increased in 21 states when the clock struck midnight as we welcomed 2025.
Those wage increases will reportedly impact an estimated 9.2 million workers and raise pay by a total of $5.7 billion.
“These additional earnings are critical for ensuring workers don’t lose ground due to rising prices, but the minimum wage level may still be too low, especially if the minimum wage was indexed years ago and not revisited since,” economic analyst Sebastian Martinez Hickey wrote.
Gray News (TV)
January 8, 2025