Tag: Maryland
Seven states now require employers that don’t have retirement plans to automatically enroll their workers in an IRA, and others have passed legislation to create similar programs. The goal is to get more people to save for retirement at a time financial security in old age increasingly depends on it. Pensions are rapidly disappearing. But…
Largely missing from the debate about raising the federal minimum wage is how much its value has eroded over the past 50 years. The current federal minimum is $7.25 an hour. If the 1968 wage were converted to today’s dollars, it would be worth about $12 an hour. At $7.25 an hour, a full-time worker…