Closing The Wage Gap

KATHLEEN STEELE GAIVIN JANUARY 17, 2024 Employers are paying more for healthcare insurance, and the costs are cutting into wages and contributing to growing income inequality. That’s according to research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Indeed, as the McKnight’s Business Daily previously has reported, healthcare costs reached a historic high in 2023, according to Willis Towers Read More

Jeremy Hogan January 16, 2024 BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (IGWC) submitted a formalunion election demand to the Indiana University administration on Tuesday, January 16, 2024.At approximately 2:00 p.m., a group of IGWC representatives delivered a letter addressed toPresident Pamela Whitten that specifically asks the IU administration to pay its graduateworkers, or Student Academic Read More

 Yereth RosenAlaska Beacon January 17, 2024 Supporters of a ballot initiative that would increase Alaska’s minimum wage, mandate paid sick leave and provide other worker protections submitted more than 40,000 petition signatures to the Alaska Division of Elections on Jan. 9, bringing their cause one step closer to a decision by voters.The group, called Better Read More

Nick Iannelli January 16, 2024, 8:26 PM Just one week into Virginia’s 2024 legislative session, partisan divides have started creeping into debates, as lawmakers consider bills that have Republicans and Democrats on opposite sides of various issues.Among the first bills to draw such partisan debate was legislation that would raise the minimum wage in Virginia, which currently sits Read More

 Michael Pope Published January 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST Democrats in the General Assembly are hoping to raise the minimum wage. The last time Democrats were in control of the General Assembly, they raised the minimum wage to $12 an hour. Now, they want to raise it to $15 an hour. Republican Senator Mark Peake Read More