Minimum Wage

More workers in Washington will have paid sick leave and the state's minimum wage will increase to $11.50 an hour in the new year.

**More data are needed on how animal antibiotics are used and on the efficacy of alternatives in order to accelerate the use of antibiotic-free options. A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts says the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance have created a growing global threat because the use of antibiotics drives resistance expansion...

SEATTLE (AP) — Republican Chris Vance blamed Sen. Patty Murray for congressional gridlock, saying in a debate that the Democrat is "part of the problem" and that the nation's Capitol "is broken." Murray, seeking her fifth term, touted her bipartisan work with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan on solving a 2013 budget impasse and spoke of her efforts to raise the minimum wage and work

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Supporters of raising Washington state's minimum have turned in more than 360,000 signatures in support of a ballot measure that seeks to incrementally increase the state's rate over the next four years to $13.50 an hour...

SEATTLE (AP) — More than a dozen workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport filed lawsuits on Wednesday over the $15 minimum wage they say they have not been paid. Their Seattle lawyers estimate the employees are owed as much as $20,000 each in back pay since the higher wage went into effect more than two years ago. Air...

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is pleased with new funding levels for the Food Safety Modernization Act, though it remains concerned that the money stays available amid turnovers on Capitol Hill and in the White House...

An effort to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour comes to Yakima on Wednesday. Officials with Working Washington will launch the campaign at the Washington Event Center at 2801 Washington Avenue. Officials with the campaign say airport workers with Working Washington led the way to Seatac’s $15 law, and fast food strikers with Working Washington helped spark the movement for $15 in Seattle...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for Seattle's new minimum wage law to take effect as planned next month, rejecting claims by franchises of big national chains that it discriminates against them. In his 43-page decision Tuesday night, U...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington state's minimum wage will rise to the highest in the nation on Jan. 1. The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1dcGPu6) that the minimum wage in the state will hit $9.47 an hour then. The minimum wage in neighboring Oregon will rise to $9...

With the unemployment rate being what it is, a lot of people these days are being forced to work for minimum wage. But exactly how much you get could depend largely on what state you’re in.