"They also object to Hochul’s proposal to allow the state to garnish up to 50 percent of incarcerated people’s wages under the program."

"Convergence of central and eastern-European EU members towards older ones with high minimum wages is much stronger than in the Mediterranean countries."

"The minimum wage once went up hand in hand with the productivity of the U.S. economy. It should again."

"[M]inimum wages have a way of screwing with economic intuition, and complicating the simple logic of supply and demand. The benefits of a $15 minimum would greatly outweigh the costs."

"Back in 2015, Dan Price of the credit card processing company Gravity Payments decided to pay everyone at his company a minimum salary of $70,000 a year, including himself. In the immediate afterma."