2024年1月30日 · This interactive tool—developed and updated by the Congressional Budget Office—allows users to explore the effects of policies that would increase the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour and has not changed since 2009.

2021年6月10日 · While proponents of increasing the minimum wage have grown increasingly vocal in the U.S., new research suggests that raising the minimum wage can actually have a significant negative...

2022年5月26日 · Experts have analyzed the effect that minimum wage increases have on hours worked by employees, employee productivity, job creation, production, and forms of non-cash compensation such as health insurance.

2023年7月25日 · EPI’s analysis shows that raising the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2028 would impact 27,858,000 workers across the country, or 19% of the U.S. workforce.

2018年9月28日 · new evidence that increases in the minimum wage reduce employment in the long run. higher minimum wages have a cost, namely fewer employment opportunities for lower-skill workers. Closing...

Increasing the federal minimum wage would have two principal efects on low-wage workers. For most low-wage workers, earnings and family income would increase, which would lift some families out of poverty. But other low-wage workers would become jobless, and their family income would fall—in some cases, below the poverty threshold.

2021年3月9日 · Minimum wage increases affect adults in their career-building years who are helping to support their families—with women disproportionately benefiting from a pay boost. The average age of workers who would see a pay increase under the Raise the Wage Act is 35 years old. About 90% of those with increased wages would be adults age 20 or older.

2023年12月1日 · With a minimum-to-average wage ratio of 0.43 (the OECD countries average in 2020), a 10% increase in the minimum wage reduces output, employment, and inequality among employees by 0.2%, 1.0%, and 2.1%, respectively, and increases total income inequality by …

Increasing the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their family’s income, and some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold.

2019年5月3日 · Understanding the Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase . In summary, the following factors should be considered when analyzing the potential impact of a minimum wage increase: The elasticity of demand for labor in relevant markets; The elasticity of demand for output in relevant markets; The nature of competition and degree of market power in ...