Closing The Wage Gap

By DREW HUTCHINSON & RUSSELL RAY SEP 25, 2019 Cherokee Nation Businesses announced that it will raise its workers’ minimum wage to $11 an hour, effective Oct. 1. The announcement comes after pay raises were approved last month for Cherokee Nation government workers. Journal Record editor Russell Ray discusses the specifics of these raises and […]

By Bill Laitner Sept. 26, 2019 @6:00 a.m. ET Michigan’s richest county is gradually shifting — politically — from red to purple, with blue in sight. On Wednesday, a slim Democratic majority on the countywide board carried on a bipartisan tradition established under longtime county executive L. Brooks Patterson, the county’s Republican standard-bearer until his

BY NICK BOWMAN SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 @5:48 AM Gravity Payments — the company known for its groundbreaking $70,000 minimum salary for its Seattle employees — expanded that offering to its Boise, Idaho offices. The move was announced in Tuesday news release, putting its Boise employees on track to meet the $70,000 salary minimum by 2024.

By Xinhua Editor: Huaxia Sep 27, 2019 @Friday 11:17 PM HONG KONG, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — The minimum allowable wage for foreign domestic helpers in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) will rise 2.4 percent to 4,630 HK dollars (about 590.53 U.S. dollars) per month, the SAR government announced Friday. Under Hong Kong’s standard

By Kristen Durand Sep 26, 2019 @Thu 5:59 PM ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – Minimum wage workers will see an increase in their paychecks next year. Alaska’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development has announced the increase will top ten dollars an hour. Come January 2020, the minimum wage will go from $9.89 to $10.19, up 3-percent