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• President to raise minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour

  April 27, 2021 8:45 AM

  President Joe Biden is preparing to use his executive powers to increase the hourly minimum wage of federal contract workers to $15, CNN reports. According to the news outlet, President Biden is expected to issue the executive order Tuesday, but it won't go into effect until early 2022. ... more »

• Biden to sign executive order aimed at strengthening American manufacturing

  January 25, 2021 7:47 AM

  The pandemic's effect on the manufacturing industry has been brutal. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the sector is still down 543,000 jobs since February. But on Monday (Jan. 25), President Joe Biden hopes to begin the process that will reverse this financial crisis by signing an executive... more »

• Governor hopes to increase minimum wage Play Video

  April 4, 2017 11:57 AM

  BATON ROUGE – The governor hopes to sway politicians into approving an increase in the state's minimum wage. The plan was outlined Tuesday as part of Governor John Bel Edwards' plans for the upcoming regular meeting of state lawmakers at the capitol in downtown Baton Rouge. The session, known... more »

• Sources: Target boosts minimum wage to $10 an hour

  April 18, 2016 4:09 PM

  Sources indicate that Target Corp will increase its minimum wage to $10 an hour for all workers. The move to $10 an hour comes just more than a year after Target followed Wal-Mart by moving all workers to a $9 an hour. The raise comes as an across-the-board boost... more »

• Equal pay, minimum wage bills pass committee after Edwards testimony Play Video

  March 31, 2016 12:07 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards testified in the Senate Labor Committee Thursday morning in support of equal pay for women and raising the state’s minimum wage . Edwards spoke in favor of Senate Bill 269 that would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8 in 2017 and... more »