July 17, 2025 —July 24 will mark sixteen years without a federal minimum wage increase, the longest period by far without a raise since the federal minimum wage was enacted in 1938. The $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage amounts to just $15,080 a year...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
June 23, 2025 — On July 1, Alaska’s minimum wage will increase from $11.91 to $13 and workers will begin accruing paid sick time in accordance with Ballot Measure 1, passed by voters in November. Business owners across...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
June 23, 2025 — Business owners are welcoming the minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 in Alaska, Oregon, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Montgomery County, Maryland and elsewhere. Business owners in Alaska are also welcoming the start of paid...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
April 29, 2025 — Missouri business owners are welcoming today’s Supreme Court’s decision upholding Proposition A, preserving paid sick leave, which takes effect Thursday, May 1, and the minimum wage increases approved by Missouri voters last November. A...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
March 11, 2025 -- As the Missouri Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case challenging last year’s ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage and enable workers to earn paid sick leave, a group...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Dec. 12, 2024—Twenty-one states will raise their minimum wage on New Year’s Day as the calendar turns to 2025. Two other states and the District of Columbia have increases scheduled later in the year. Business owners across the...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Nov. 5, 2024 — Missouri business owners are applauding the passage of Proposition A, saying raising the minimum wage and enabling workers to earn paid sick days will boost consumer spending and strengthen Missouri’s workforce and businesses. Proposition...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Nov. 5, 2024 — Alaska business owners are praising the approval of Ballot Measure 1, saying raising the minimum wage and enabling workers to earn paid sick days will boost consumer spending and strengthen Alaska’s workforce, businesses and...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Oct. 21, 2024 — As early voting begins tomorrow in Missouri, more than 500 businesses in the Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy coalition urge passage of Proposition A. They say that raising the minimum wage to $15...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 5, 2024 — Today, Alaska Business for Better Jobs, a new and growing coalition with more than 120 Alaska businesses and business organizations to date, announced support for Ballot Measure 1. Alaska Business for Better Jobs...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Aug. 13, 2024 —Missouri business owners welcomed today’s Secretary of State announcement that Proposition A to raise the minimum wage and enable workers to earn paid sick time has qualified for the November ballot. The business owners are part...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
July 18, 2024—July 24 will mark fifteen years since the last federal minimum wage increase in 2009. This is the longest period by far without a raise since the minimum wage was enacted in 1938. The...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
May 1, 2024 — Missouri business owners are speaking today about the importance of raising the state minimum wage and providing paid sick leave as Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages submits signatures to qualify the ballot initiative...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, 601-832-6079
Dec. 14, 2023—Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage to ring in the new year. Another three states and the District of Columbia have increases scheduled later in 2024. Business owners across the country are welcoming the increases, saying they...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Sept. 26, 2023—Business owners from across Massachusetts support increasing the state minimum wage. Business leaders are testifying at the Massachusetts State House before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of legislation that would gradually...