Johns Hopkins plans to boost minimum wage to $15 an hour

By The Associated Press
May 6, 2021 | 8:54 AM

Johns Hopkins plans to boost the minimum wage at its university and health system to $15 an hour.

The institutions announced the increase that affects more than 6,000 workers in the state on Thursday.

Together they are the largest private employer in Maryland.

The increase also affects about 300 workers at Hopkins’ All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The changes takes effect July 1 for university workers and on Jan. 1 for health system employees.

They come ahead of the 2025 target date for statewide adoption of a $15 minimum wage for businesses with at least 15 employees.

The Baltimore Sun reports that Hopkins officials don’t expect the increase to impact tuition or hospital rates.

Fentanyl seizures plummet as Trump administration shifts focus to immigration

By Maryland Matters
August 22, 2026 | 8:26 PM

WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a subagency of DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reported an “all hands-on deck” environment toward immigration enforcement began in January 2025, according to the DHS Office of Inspector General report. “With ICE dedicating more staff hours to immigration investigations, staffing hours for fentanyl investigations declined,” the report said. The report found that the hours dedicated to fentanyl investigations for fiscal 2025 declined by more than 250,000 hours, or 31%, compared to fiscal 2024.

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