Closing The Wage Gap

By Andre Thomas Jr. Mar 27, 2023 HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Local business owners attended a public hearing on Monday to address the need for a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth’s minimum wage has been set at $7.25 for 15 years, and supporters, including House Democrats, say it’s time for that to change. […]

By Maysoon Khan March 28, 2023 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation. New York City resident Anthony Rivera, 20, who sorts packages at

By Sahid Fawaz March 19, 2023 Workers in Nebraska are protesting a controversial bill limiting the minimum wage for teenagers. 1011 Now reports: “Taking a step back—that was the theme at the Belmont Community Center on Saturday. That’s something organizers against LB327, which was spliced together with lb15 in committee, say the bill will do

March 20 2023 Thousands of protesters filled downtown Lisbon on March 18 to demand higher wages and pensions, as well as government intervention to cap soaring food prices they say are strangling already tight budgets. Portugal is one of Western Europe’s poorest countries and official data shows that more than 50 percent of Portuguese workers

Sunday, 03/19/2023 A 15-hour session of the Supreme Labor Council, the body responsible for determining the minimum wage, ended without reaching a final agreement Saturday, leaving millions of workers in doubt of their future. The government has already decided to give its employees both in the administrative bureaucracy and its business enterprises a mere 20-percent raise when