Minimum wage boost kicks in today

Although Arkansas previously enacted a $1.10/hour hike in the minimum wage to $6.25/hr in 2006, all Arkansans working at that wage will get a raise today. The federal minimum wage increases today to $6.55 an hour — part of a boost that will lift it to $7.25 an hour next summer. The minimum wage was first signed into law seven decades ago by Franklin Roosevelt: 25 cents an hour.