Closing The Wage Gap

Minimum-wage hike step in the right direction, but $15 would be better, say workers

Provincial government has promised a series of increases to bring the wage to $12.65 by October 2021 CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2020 The provincial government’s recent promise to give the wage a bump the minimum wage to $12.65 an hour over the next year and a half still won’t be enough, people who […]

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‘Shame on us’ Labor & Industry secretary says of Pa.’s stalled minimum wage

Cassie Miller Feb 24, 2020 Embarrassing. That’s the one word that Pennsylvania Labor & Industry Secretary Gerard Oleksiak and his top deputy used last week to describe Pennsylvania’s minimum wage, which has been mired at $7.25 an hour for more than a decade. The two Wolf administration officials made the case for a wage hike

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PolitiFact: Viral post criticizes Bernie Sanders’ ‘math’ on health care, taxes. It’s wrong

By Daniel Funke, PolitiFact Staff Writer Feb 25, 2020 Several conservative pages on Facebook are trying to discredit the plans with bad math. The math, the post claims, works out like this: A person making Sanders’ $15 an hour minimum wage would earn $31,200 a year. But because of Sanders’ 52% tax to pay for

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Advocates for a $15 minimum wage question Buttigieg as he marches with them in SC

By Joseph Bustos February 24, 2020 Charleston, S.C. While Pete Buttigieg chanted “We Work! We Sweat, Put $15 on our check!” along with striking fast food workers calling for a $15 minimum wage, he was loudly questioned about his commitment to the fight for $15. About 100 people rallied outside of a Charleston McDonalds calling

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