The minimum wage is increasing on New Year's Day in 41 cities — 28 of them in California — and 23 states.
, surging inflation and worker activism provided further impetus for lawmakers to lift wages.
"The raises we are seeing are a true testament to the power of organizing," Yannet Lathrop, senior researcher and policy analyst at NELP, said in a statement last week."These raises were achieved in a variety of ways, from ballot initiatives to statehouses to workers making their demands to employers directly." analysis
from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Annual raises for full-time workers making the minimum wage average from $150 in Michigan to $937 in Delaware, EPI found. "Importantly, more than 2 million parents will get a raise, including more than a million single parents," stated EPI, which estimates that more than 5.7 million children live in households that will have more income coming in with the new year.
Six states will have the lowest-paid making at least $15 an hour by the end of 2023. They include California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Washington, NELPNew Jersey's minimum was slated to rise to $14 from $13 at the start of the year, but as it is indexed to inflation, the base pay will rise to $14.13 instead, the state
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