Delaware led its Northeast neighbors in generally slow population growth between 2010 and 2014, new Census Bureau estimates show, with the state's largest city continuing to edge back from a slip during the previous decade and Smyrna leading the state in percentage gains.
The increase of 25 cents per hour brings the current minimum wage to $10.70 from $10.45. It will put Manitoba the fourth-highest among other Canadian jurisdictions. Ontario raised its minimum wage to $11 an hour effective June 1. Saskatchewan will increase its minimum wage from $10 to $10.20 per hour effective Oct. 1.
Recently, the minimum wage in Ontario was frozen at $6.85 an hour from 1995 to 2003. From 2004 to 2010, the minimum wage was increased in two pre-determined series of steps: first from $6.85 to $8.00 in four steps and then from $8.00 to $10.25 in three steps.