Question

What is the federal minimum wage? Why hasn’t it gone up since 2009? What is the minimum wage in your town? Is it enough to support a family?

Answer 1

--->Federal minimum wage is the lowest lowest per hour that a worker may be paid, as mandated by federal law. It is a legally mandated price floor on hourly wages, below which workers may not be offered or accept a job. The federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour in 2009, an increase from $6.55 per hour in 2008, which was itself an increase from $5.85 per hour set in 2007.

---> The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has not changed since 2009. Increasing minimum wage pushes low paid workers and their dependants into dire poverty due to loss of livelihood as companies recruit less workers due to high wages. For example, minimum wage in Texas is $7.25.