2015/5/20-Once upon a time, minimum-wage debates were mostly the province of Congress and statehouses. These days, you’re more likely than ever to hear these debates in your City Hall. The trend continued this week, when the Los Angeles City Council …..
2015/05/19 – The nation’s second-largest city voted on Tuesday to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage. The increase …..
Editors’ note: On Tuesday, May 12, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling his “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,” a 13-point plan framed as the political left’s answer to Republicans’ 1994 “Contract With America,” in a speech outside …..
2015/5/8-The U.S. economy added a solid 223,000 jobs in April, according to government data released Friday morning, a key sign that the labor market is regaining its footing after taking a slide earlier this year. The unemployment rate fell to …..
Why everyone should join the Fight for $15 protests, regardless of who they are or what they make. 2015/04/18-Chasten Florence was on his lunch break when he decided to join a protest outside a McDonald’s in New York City on …..
