The Center for American Progress has long worked to build the policy case for raising the minimum wage and eliminating the subminimum wage for people with disabilities and tipped workers. The following research and analyses demonstrate how people deserve to be paid fairly for their work and how a higher minimum wage would—rather than limit job growth—provide financial stability for families and boost overall economic growth.
Workers are standing up for a living wage and a union. Here is why the union is so important.
Evidence shows that increasing the minimum wage is good for workers, their families, and the economy.
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would lower government spending on federal nutrition assistance by $46 billion over the next 10 years.
Americans have a moral imperative to raise the federal minimum wage.
Six common-sense policies could help roll back economic inequality in America.
Historical experience and academic studies show that raising the minimum wage does not harm the economy, even when unemployment is high.
If Congress raised the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, millions of American women would be better able to support themselves and their families.
Evidence shows that raising the minimum wage when unemployment is high does not harm the economy.
This infographic shows how the California minimum-wage increase will affect the state’s working families.
There are a number of things that policymakers can do to strengthen the middle class that won't require any additional expenditures.