Closing the Wage Gap
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Morgan adds $374k to minimum wage effort
FOX 85° News Weather Entertainment Sports Community Contests More Morgan adds $374k to minimum wage effort Posted Sep 10 2019 07:38PM EDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NSF) – Orlando attorney John Morgan plowed another $374,000 last month into a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the minimum wage in Florida, as the effort gets close to meeting
At Allentown rally, supporters of $15-an-hour minimum wage say they’re “tired of hearing excuses”
Anthony Salamone By ANTHONY SALAMONE THE MORNING CALL | SEP 10, 2019 At Allentown rally, supporters of $15-an-hour minimum wage say they’re “tired of hearing excuses” Advocates for raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage held a rally Tuesday, Sept. 10, outside the Lehigh County Government Center in Allentown. (Anthony Salamone / The Morning Call) People ask John
California is about to rewrite the rules of the gig economy
September 7, 2019 California is in the final stretch of its bid to regulate the gig economy. On Aug. 30, the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee cleared Assembly Bill 5, moving it a crucial step closer to becoming state law. It is now widely expected the bill, known as AB5, will pass a full Senate vote
Demanding a change: Valley Lyft drivers unite and protest against new pay rates
September 8, 2019. PHOENIX – Local Lyft drivers are sending a message Saturday, demanding change from the ride-sharing company and citing low pay and safety concerns. We spoke with about a dozen Lyft drivers. Some of them could be out here tonight trying to make a living — something they say is becoming so hard
Lower-paid N.H. workers have seen wages decline compared to cost of living, even as economy booms
Saturday, September 07, 2019 CONCORD — Despite years of economic growth and record employment in the state, lower-paid New Hampshire workers have seen their wages decline compared to inflation over the past decade, according to a new report. “In straightforward terms, those individuals in the state making the median wage or less actually have less
A call to presidential candidates: Show us your plan to #EndPoverty
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 Twelve million children in America went to bed hungry last night. But you wouldn’t know it from the last two Democratic primary debates, where the issue of poverty barely crossed the lips of the 20 candidates and was completely ignored by the media moderators. Poverty is a threat to our nation’s economy,