By Tod Palmer Feb 10, 2020 Jackson County is adopting the city’s “living wage” standard as part of a series of changes recommended by an independent Job Classification and Compensation Study. The city of Kansas City, Missouri, passed an ordinance in October 2017 recommending living wage increases and promising to raise the minimum wage for […]
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By Colleen Flaherty February 11, 2020 Graduate student workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, escalated their ongoing grade strike to a general strike Monday, saying they can’t afford to live where they’ve been recruited to work and study. Hundreds of students gathered on campus throughout the day for rallies, talks and solidarity. Faculty
By Alexandra Kelley February 10, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer just vowed to raise the minimum wage to $22 per hour if he gets elected. A Fox news article chronicled his announcement, originally made during a campaign block party on Sunday in South Carolina. The current minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour
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By Robbie Corey-Boulet February 9, 2020 By attracting foreign investors through cheap labour, [Ethiopia] wants to follow the model of China and other Asian nations in creating a robust manufacturing sector that can offer badly needed jobs for its young workforce. But despite high unemployment, young Ethiopians are not going along with it, preferring to
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By Randy Ching February 10, 2020 Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the U.S. When adjusted for the cost of living, our minimum wage of $10.10 an hour is one of the lowest in the country. Our cost of housing is the highest in the country. It is impossible to survive on $21,000
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