Arizona minimum wage to increase to $7.90 an hour, By Howard Fischer, October 16, 2013, Yuma Sun: “Come January, Arizona’s minimum wage workers will be able to afford an extra Big Mac a week. But not if they want fries and a drink with it. The state Industrial Commission voted Wednesday for a 10-cent-an-hour hike in the state minimum wage. That will bring the figure to $7.90 an hour. By contrast, the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, a figure it has been stuck at since 2009…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty