minimum wage

Each year, nearly a quarter million Ohioans are paid less than the state or federal minimum wage. It’s led local governments to stop working with businesses that commit wage theft.

The increase comes from an inflation-based adjustment implemented every year through a constitutional amendment.

But advocates for the poor say the increase does little to help working, low-income Ohioans.

President Joe Biden has said he doesn’t think an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour will pass in the latest COVID relief bill. But Ohio’s…

Backers of a planned fall ballot issue seeking to raise the minimum wage in Ohio to $13 by 2025 have filed a lawsuit, saying Gov. Mike DeWine’s…

A group trying to increase the minimum wage through a constitutional amendment can begin collecting signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.…

Ohioans are one step closer to voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the state’s minimum wage. The petition to start the process…

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, Ohio’s lowest paid workers will have a special reason to celebrate. In 2020, Ohio’s minimum wage goes…

Democratic Ohio lawmakers are making another effort to raise the state’s minimum wage. A new report by the progressive-leaning think tank Policy Matters…

There's some good news for Ohio’s minimum wage workers. Their pay goes up by 15 cents an hour starting today January 1st. The new state minimum wage will…