Oregon’s minimum wage will increase to $8.95 an hour in 2013, By Queenie Wong, September 17, 2012, Statesman Journal: “Oregon’s minimum wage will increase by 15 cents to $8.95 an hour next year, keeping pace with inflation. The uptick reflects a 1.7 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since August 2011, state officials announced today. The Consumer Price Index, an indicator of inflation, measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a set of goods and services such as food, transportation and medical care…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty