Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
The case for increasing the minimum wage
By Pierre Briancon Nov 19, 2019 Electoral campaigns are the moment when political parties remember that there are more poor than rich voters, and in most western democracies, this is the time when promises to raise the minimum wage flourish. In the U.S., Democratic candidates for their party’s presidential nomination all seem to agree on
John Bel Edwards wins Louisiana governor’s election
BY SARAH EWALL-WICE, AARON NAVARRO – NOVEMBER 16, 2019 Incumbent Governor John Bel Edwards will remain the only Democratic governor in the deep south, after winning a tightly-contested governor’s election against Republican businessman Eddie Rispone Saturday night, according to the Associated Press. The Democratic candidate’s win is a discouraging sign for Republicans and President Donald
Raising the minimum wage under consideration for Pennsylvania
November 16, 2019 by wcednews HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Discussions toward raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 are heating up. The move is also an effort to get Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to abandon an extension of overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers. Leaders of the Senate’s Republican majority said
P.E.I. increasing minimum wage to $12.85 per hour
By Staff 11/14/2019 Prince Edward Island is increasing the province’s minimum wage from $12.25 to $12.85 per hour starting July 2020, continuing the yearly trend that started in 2000. The new $0.60 per hour rate increase came a year after P.E.I. marked a $.70-per-hour rate increase in 2019, which saw a $12.25-per-hour minimum rate compared
UK election 2019 could deliver the country’s first real living wage
By: Donald Hirsch November 14, 2019 The din of political parties outbidding each other on promises to spend more on the NHS, education, transport infrastructure and housing has echoes of pre-austerity and even pre-Thatcher times. In a less familiar but no less noisy competition, both main parties are trying to persuade voters that they are
Mayor proposes wage hike for tipped workers
By A.D. QUIG Her plan would boost their pay—but not to the full $15 that some employee advocates were hoping for. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has introduced her proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021 and boost base wages for tipped workers—but not to the full $15 that some employee advocates were