Stateline: Minimum wage set to increase in 15 cities, states despite lawmaker pushback
By Kevin Hardy
Stateline, June 26, 2025. Also Yahoo News, Alaska Beacon, Nebraska Examiner, West Virginia News, Norfolk Daily News (NE), KQKX-FM (Norfolk, NE), more
The minimum wage will increase in 15 states and cities in July, though lawmakers in other states have worked to slow down wage hikes.
Wage floor increases beginning July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., will benefit more than 880,000 workers ... according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute ... Another dozen cities will see minimum wage increases this summer, including Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco...