DC’s minimum hourly wage increases to $15

By Rob Woodfork
June 30, 2020 | 10:55 PM

Starting Wednesday, the minimum hourly wage in D.C. will be $15, the city’s Department of Employment Services announced.

In addition, the base minimum wage for tipped employees in the District increases from $4.45 per hour to $5 per hour.

As part of the Fair Shot Minimum Wage Act of 2016, the minimum wage in D.C. is up from $14 per hour last year and $13.25 per hour in 2018.

Starting in 2021, the rate will go up in proportion with increases in the Consumer Price Index.

The minimum wage in the District has nearly doubled in less than a decade.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
September 1, 2026 | 10:36 AM

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.

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