Closing the Wage Gap

Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.

Highlights of Pennsylvania’s minimum wage legislation

Nov 20, 2019 by The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed compromise legislation to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 in a deal with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. However, Wolf gave up a number of concessions to win its passage, and its prospects in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House

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Gett shutting down Juno, announces Lyft partnership

The three-year old ride-hail app Juno will shut down Monday evening, parent company Gett announced today, citing “misguided” city regulations and a strategic shift toward the corporate transportation sector. A spokeswoman said the Juno app will go dark sometime around 6 p.m. Juno has been struggling for some time. Earlier this year, when it was

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Poverty is at crisis levels, but Boris Johnson doesn’t care

By Polly Toynbee Nov 19, 2019 In the dying days of the 2010 general election, too late, far too late, one event electrified the campaign. Citizens UK, the living wage community organisers, held a leaders’ hustings under the high dome of London’s Methodist Central Hall. In a heart-stopping moment, a 14-year-old girl, Tia Sanchez, stepped

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Letters to the editor for Nov. 19, 2019

By William Farley and Max Hulen The City of Ottumwa is considering investing in the development of a hotel property adjacent to the Bridgeview Center. The primary goal of the investment, as stated by Councilmember Mark Roe during his editorial board interview, is to attract visitor spending and offset the existing public subsidy to the

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