While financial sector workers enjoy a bonus bonanza, low-wage workers haven’t gotten a raise in nearly a decade.
Minimum Wage
Workers dependent on tips have to rely on food stamps and soup kitchens to survive despite working full time.
Massachusetts just repealed its cap on aid for children born to welfare recipients, but such laws persist elsewhere.
GOP-controlled legislatures have been wresting control over wages and benefits from local governments.
The exclusion of domestic and care workers from labor laws is racist and sexist and must end, say advocates.
Republicans are trying to undermine Democratic governors’ moves on Medicaid, renewable energy and the minimum wage.
Farmworkers and workers who earn tips are excluded from the $15 per hour minimum guarantee.
Though states can make some progress, in the end, any substantial change in inequality will require federal action.
The STOP Walmart Act prohibits large companies from stock buybacks unless they make investments in their workers.
The wins are a rebuke to GOP lawmakers who had blocked legislative efforts to raise the minimum wage.