
Patriotic Millionaires Minute
The Minimum Wage
<p>The federal minimum wage is seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. It hasn’t gone up since 2009. That’s seventeen years — the longest stretch without an increase since the minimum wage was created in 1938.</p> <p>You’ll hear that raising it kills jobs. The data says otherwise. Since 1996, minimum wage increases have been on the ballot thirty-two times. Voters approved twenty-eight of them — in red states and blue states alike. In 2024, Alaska and Missouri both passed fifteen-dollar minimums in the same election where they voted for Trump.</p> <p>And the research backs it up. Decades of studies ha...

