minimum wage

Each year, it feels like basic needs become more and more expensive across the country, and living in Maine is no exception.

A Maine referendum enacted in 2016 requires the state to adjust the minimum wage each year based on the cost of living, which we all know is high, so it only makes sense to boost the pay for Maine's minimum wage workers.

How do the New England states' minimum wages compare to each other? Let's take a look at the numbers.

We are so generous (and humble).

Rewind to Maine 150 years ago in the job market. I'm assuming most of these jobs aren't going to come as a surprise to you as you sift through them, but you never know. Check out the top 50 here.

Here is how many hours per week an individual would need to work in Maine just to afford the median rent level statewide.

Mainers will be making at least $12 an hour starting in January.

Maine’s Minimum Wage Going Up January 1, 2018,

Election Day 2016 is just three weeks away and we've been taking a closer look at the five citizen initiative questions and one bond question that Mainers will be voting on. Today we take a closer look at Maine Ballot Question 4 'Maine Minimum Wage Increase' question.

Maine election officials yesterday (Feb. 16) determined that a petition to increase the state's minimum wage is valid. The petition proposes raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour in 2017 and by $1 per hour each year after that until it's $12 per hour in 2020.

Every Monday on the Moose Morning Show we are joined by Senator Roger Katz of Augusta to keep us up to date on what's happening at the capitol.

There are many topics that won't go away in the realm of politics and raising the minimum wage is one. The question iswhether to, how to or to how much we should raise the minimum wage is constant. Now, voters may have their say in 2016.

Raises are here for more than 2,300 Maine Walmart employees!

Raising minimum wage looks to be a big subject right now, I just wrote about Massachusetts sending a bill through the State House with an attempt to get it to $11 dollars an hour and now New York City fast food worker are walking off the jobs saying that they want $15 an hour as a minimum wage.

Massachusetts Senate has approved a minimum wage hike. Over the next three years it will go from $8 an hour to $11 an hour. Maine minimum wage is now, $7.50 an hour. Weird to think minimum wage was $3.55 an hour when I was 16 back in 1988.

It was on this date July 9, 1996, the U.S. Senate approved a 90 cent raise in the minimum wage from $4.25 an hour through a two-step increase to $5.15 an hour.