Amazon raises minimum wage to 15 US dollars for all US employees

Amazon is increasing its minimum wage to 15 US dollars an hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees in the United States, after a report by nonprofit organization New Food Economy exposed the e-tailer is one of the American companies with the most employees receiving SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. In Arizona, for example, nearly one in three Amazon employees were on food stamps or lived with someone who was in 2017.