George Miller: “I'm encouraged that we're taking steps in the right direction.”

the tip credit, I think, today--what tipped employees get paid as part of the minimum wage is now down to 29 percent of the minimum wage.

However, when a charter school falls short of that promise, we owe it to the students, the families, and the teachers to hold the school responsible for improvement and close that school, if necessary, if they can't meet those goals.

We should work with Secretary Perez in the final months of the Congress to pass legislation that will increase the minimum wage.

the minimum wage appears to not only have employees retain their jobs longer, but employers saying that they are getting the better quality of applicant for that job and they are staying longer at the higher wage.