By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. labor costs increased slightly more than expected in the second ...

The hospital wage index standardizes Medicare hospital payments for labor cost differences, paying otherwise equivalent hospitals more when they operate in areas with higher labor costs than in areas ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington, DC. She is also a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour ...

The state’s minimum wage for nontipped workers will increase at the beginning of next year to $16.35 per hour. The current rate is $15.69 per hour. The change is required by a 2019 law “that connects ...