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Poverty Is at Emergency Levels in the US. Why Isn’t It a Midterm Election Issue?
Issues like raising the minimum wage and expanding health care should be front and center.
Sanders’s Midterm Advice to Democrats: Have the “Guts” to Lead on the Economy
It is key for Democrats to make it clear where they stand on issues like unions and minimum wage, he said.
Ron Johnson Suggests That Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Eliminated
Eliminating the federal minimum wage would likely have disastrous consequences for workers.
Newsom Signs Bill Creating Fast Food Council With Power to Raise Minimum Wage
The law "gives hardworking fast-food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table," Governor Newsom said.
Subminimum Wages Were Always Deplorable. Inflation Is Making Them Worse.
Activists are pushing to end policies that allow employers to pay some workers less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
Federal Minimum Wage Hasn’t Been Raised in 13 Years
Progressives are urging Democrats to raise the pay floor as inflation continues to diminish workers' purchasing power.
The Value of the Federal Minimum Wage Is at a 66-Year Low
Every day of inaction from Congress extends the longest period in history without a federal minimum wage raise.
Seattle City Council Passes US’s First Minimum Wage Guarantee for Gig Workers
The rules would also prevent app companies from punishing workers based on their hours or which jobs they accept.
Activists Have Gathered Enough Signatures to Put $18 Wage on California Ballot
Proponents of the Living Wage Act announced that they’ve gathered over 1 million signatures to qualify for the ballot.
Data Reveals 63 Percent of Hourly Starbucks Workers Make Under $15 an Hour
Though Starbucks claims to be progressive, most of its workers make less than a living wage in most states.