Closing the Wage Gap

Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.

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

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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

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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

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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,

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