Closing The Wage Gap

Austin Community College workers push for raises, $22 minimum wage

By: Daniel Marin – Jun 20, 2022 / 06:34 PM CDT – kxan AUSTIN (KXAN) — Feeling the pressures of rising costs, employees with Austin Community College are asking the board of trustees for pay raises. A group of roughly two dozen ACC faculty and staff members attended Monday afternoon’s board meeting, some holding signs

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Health care worker wage initiative petition comes before LA City Council

By: CITY NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES – 6:02 AM PT June 21, 2022 LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council will consider two courses of action Tuesday following a successful petition by people seeking to raise the minimum wage for those working at covered health care facilities in Los Angeles to $25 per hour.

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Oregon’s minimum wage is going up July 1: Here’s what it will be in various parts of the state

By: Mike Rogoway – Jun. 21, 2022, 6:50 a.m. – Oregonlive When Oregon lawmakers mandated a series of minimum wage hikes back in 2016, they reached a compromise over just how high the new wages should be. The Legislature portioned the state into three categories and set three different wage scales loosely based on the

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Democratic lawmakers in Pa. call for minimum wage increase as inflation rises

By: Harri Leigh (FOX43) – 9:31 AM EDT June 13, 2022 – FOX43 HARRISBURG, Pa. — A group of Democratic lawmakers will hold a press conference in Harrisburg Monday to call for raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 per hour, with a pathway to $15 per hour. Pennsylvania currently follows the federal minimum wage of

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