While the federal rate has not changed in more than a decade, 30 states and Washington, DC, now have minimum wages above that level.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
The agreement raises minimum wages from $25 to more than $30 per hour by April 2029 and includes 19% in total annual wage increases between 2026 and 2029.
For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
Anthropic gives serious attention to displacement, including the possibility of durable pressure on wages and employment, while the Vatican insists that work is tied to dignity, participation and citizenship.
While first-round picks are slotted into salaries through the NBA’s rookie scale, there isn’t as much structure with second-round selections.
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Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
Those aren’t disqualifying salaries in a rising cap world, but the preference should be snagging plug-ins who are willing sign short-term, such as Matt Grzelcyk (who also has ties to Sullivan), Ville Heinola or Jeremy Lauzon.
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Ultra-Orthodox learners committed to lifelong Torah studies also receive government stipends, among other benefits.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
23 June 2026
The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
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