which us state has the highest minimum wage
Minimum wage in the United States Beginning in January 2017, Massachusetts and Washington will have the highest state minimum wages.[2] There is a racial difference for support of a higher minimum wage with most black and Hispanic individuals supporting a $15.00 federal minimum wage, and 54% of whites opposing it.[3] In 2015, about 3 percent of White, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. Among Black workers, the percentage was about 4 percent.[4]
List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate The lowest poverty rate was in New Hampshire, and the highest poverty rate was in American Samoa (the highest poverty rate among the states was in Mississippi).