Here are five other things for ASCs to know about shifts in the cost of labor: 1. The Consumer Price Index increase, also known as inflation, hit 2.9% in December 2024, according to the most recent ...

The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...

The first, filed by Rep Carolyn Caton, R-Blue Springs, would strip out annual Consumer Price Index adjustments and exempts people younger than 20 from the minimum wage increase. The bill also ...

Nikki Nice, D-Oklahoma City, filed Senate Bill 55, which proposes to raise the minimum ... be linked to the cost of living as measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index.

Proposition A, which will increase the ... workers below minimum wage. HB 758 would also prevent the minimum wage from being increased in line with the Consumer Price Index in the future and ...

Kara Corches with the Missouri Chamber of Commerce believes the increase could possibly lead to increased prices. “This would put Missouri as having the ninth highest minimum wage in the country.

The living wage is different from minimum wage which sets ... according to a staff report. The increase reflects the October 2024 Consumer Price Index change for the San Francisco Bay Area ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says workers will benefit from the province's largest ever increase to the minimum ... the wage is based on matching last year’s consumer price index and ...