minimum wage

All of the major Democratic candidates running for mayor say they support the idea of raising the minimum wage. But none of them fully support a proposal…

At the State House in Annapolis on Monday, Gov. Martin O’Malley into law a measure that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. The…

As the General Assembly session nears a close, WYPR’s Senior News Analyst Fraser Smith and state house reporter Christopher Connelly talk about two key…

WYPR's Fraser Smith gets an update on the governor's minimum wage bill (and related deal-making) from state house reporter Christopher Connelly.

Just two weeks are left before the end of the legislative session in Annapolis, and the Governor’s proposal to raise the minimum wage is stuck in a Senate…

Gov. Martin O’Malley met with small business owners yesterday at Linemark, a printing company in Upper Marlboro. He was there to tout his plan to raise…

The House of Delegates moved forward the governor’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016. Over the two hours of debate on Wednesday,…

A coalition of faith leaders, anti-poverty advocates and workers gathered at St. Vincent DePaul in Baltimore Monday to rally behind efforts to raise…

The president will announce in his State of the Union address that he's signing an executive order to lift the pay in new federal contracts. A top adviser tells NPR that Obama has "warmed up to" the idea of using executive orders to move his agenda ahead.

In a busy second week of the General Assembly's 90-day session there was a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana--another one for a minimum wage…