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Allegheny Co. Council overrides Exec Rich Fitzgerald’s minimum wage hike veto

By: Kim Lyons – June 21, 2023 PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County Council on Tuesday voted to override County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto of a bill to raise the minimum wage for county workers. The legislation calls for the county to pay workers a minimum of $18 an hour beginning in 2024, which increases to $19 […]

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Maine Legislature approves bill to increase Maine minimum wage to $15 an hour

By WMTW Jun. 15, 2023 AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) – Both chambers of the Maine legislature recently passed a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by January, but the future of the bill still remains unclear. “An Act to Create a Livable Wage by Increasing the Minimum Hourly Wage,” sponsored

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White House will announce steps aimed at closing gender and racial wage gaps

By Donald Judd March 15, 2022 The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce a series of steps aimed at closing the gender and racial wage gaps, with Vice President Kamala Harris hosting a virtual White House meeting to mark Equal Pay Day. The steps include a new regulation across the federal workforce banning the use of prior

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Connecticut caregivers strike attracts national support to end poverty wages

By Joelle Fishman June 9, 2023 HARTFORD, CT – Striking group home and day program caregivers marked week two of their strike against poverty with a rally at Emanuel Lutheran Church, followed by a march to the State Capitol, as Nobel prize winning economist Paul Stiglitz issued a statement of support indicating that the strike

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