The South Carolina Senate has voted what is effectively an $18,000-a-year pay raise into the state’s spending plan for the next budget year.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education voted to approve the 2025-26 budget. Though, after debate in recent ...

Medicaid spends more than half its budget on medical and long-term care for frail, low-income older adults and younger people ...

Recent presidential actions introduce a menu of handouts, exemptions and market interventions aimed at bailing out the coal ...

Under a Trump administration directive to freeze some federal funds that subsidize reproductive health services like birth ...

Many jurisdictions already rolled out minimum wage changes earlier this year. Here's where increases are coming and what to ...

Many jurisdictions already rolled out minimum wage changes earlier this year. Here's where increases are still set to come.

WASHINGTON — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced legislation on Thursday that would increase the federal minimum wage ... to make sure that Americans can pay their bills, feed their families ...

That pending grant change is the subject of a federal lawsuit, and currently is on hold. The fact that state lawmakers have included a 2.5% pay increase in the state’s budget, however ...

Public workers are calling for an across-the-board pay raise, more funding for public services and academic freedom at public universities. The union said state agencies face understaffing ...

WASHINGTON (WCAX) - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is fighting to raise wages for 22 million of the nation’s lowest-paid workers. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour hasn’t gone up in 15 years.

Connelly is also proposing an increase in supplemental pay for assistant principals from ... funding amount set to come from the state and federal purse. Additionally, requested revenue from ...