Closing the Wage Gap

Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.

A $15 minimum wage is exactly what our economy needs

07/16/19 08:00 AM EDT This week, Democrats in the House have the chance to end poverty wages and increase paychecks for 27 million American workers. There’s no excuse not to get this done. Democratic candidates around the country ran on a $15 minimum wage. In 2018, Arkansas and Missouri — not exactly bastions of liberal politics

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Tipping point: State bills would equalize minimum wages for wait staffers, other workers

Jul 14, 2019 at 5:00 AM Two bills filed in the state Legislature could raise the wages of thousands of waitstaff at restaurants across Massachusetts. The “one fair wage” bills S.1082 and H.1617, sponsored by state Sen. Patricia D. Jehlen, D-Somerville, and state Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, D-Pittsfield, would steadily equalize the minimum wage for tipped and non-tipped workers

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Our View: Working poor need more support

Jul 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM The United States has for a long time maintained an uneasy relationship with its working poor. Too few legislative solutions look to move them to the next rung while too many amount to a tut-tut over the rung these folks currently find themselves. But in times of great income

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Minimum wage in Vietnam set to increase by 5.5 percent next year

02:49 PM July 14, 2019 Starting next year, minimum wage in the private sector in Vietnam will increase by 5.5 percent after three-party negotiations between representatives of the State, employers and employees ended last Friday. Accordingly, minimum wage for workers in Region I, which covers urban Hanoi and HCM City, is set to rise to

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Low-wage Workers Hold Town Hall Meeting to Push for Fair Wages

Low-wage workers gathered in a town hall meeting in Bayview on June 29th to denounce the growing income inequality in the Bay Area and declare that if their wages did not increase they would be forced to leave their jobs. “The inequality in wages is ridiculous. The wage gap is getting bigger and for this

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