Closing The Wage Gap

California Senate candidates spar over Dem’s proposal for $50 minimum wage: ‘Do the math’

by Andrew Mark Miller, February 13, 2024 A Monday night debate in California between several candidates vying for an open Senate seat included a question about raising the minimum wage to $50, an idea that one Democrat candidate has floated. “In the Bay Area, I believe it was the United Way that came out with

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Rising cost of employer-sponsored healthcare cutting into worker wages, study finds

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

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