Minimum wage: The workers who keep the country going -- Shane Te Pou / Where the minimum wage will rise in 2025 / Map: Where minimum wage is -- and isn't -- increasing in 2025 / This is how (and where) minimum wage will increase in 2025 / Working for minimum wage? You'll see a pay bump starting today / Most freelance book critics are making less than minimum wage. / The 'outrageous' minimum wage differences hitting youngest workers / Minimum wage increasing in 2024 / The Empire State rings in the new year with a pay bump for minimum-wage workers / Map: The minimum wage is going up in 22 states on Jan. 1