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minimum wage

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an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.

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Recent Examples of minimum wage Gonzales ran with a platform decisively to the left, supporting Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage and cracking down on junk fees. — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Finding reliable caregivers willing to do demanding, intimate work for little more than minimum wage is already difficult. — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 30 June 2026 Not all municipalities within Cook County follow the county’s minimum wage ordinance, however, because they are permitted to pass their own minimum wage laws. — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026 Candidates at Tuesday’s forum largely focused on affordability and education, often agreeing with each other on matters like increasing the federal minimum wage and the need for access to quality affordable housing. — Raisa Habersham july 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for minimum wage

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Over the past decade, home prices have risen much faster than wages.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 July 2026
For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

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No one expects Moreno to spend like the Dodgers do (and even Walter’s fellow owners want a salary cap in an attempt to stop the Dodgers).

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
That adds up to just $15,080 a year, based on a standard 40-hour workweek—less than a third of the average American’s salary of around $60,000 yearly.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 July 2026

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California is tops in the nation for average teacher salary at $103,552; EPI sets a living wage in the state at $73,311.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Additionally, the brand’s Living Wage Program, a supply chain initiative that assesses living wage benchmarks based on regional costs of living, continued with eight suppliers.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 1 June 2026

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