Closing The Wage Gap

By Laurie Roberts Nov. 18, 2019 Attention Arizona: You have before you a bold — really bold (think brazen) — opportunity. The chance to sign a petition that “unleashes the ingenuity of the American spirit to strive to grow and prosper”. The chance to “safeguard fundamental freedom” and remain free from “the whims of politicians […]

By Levi Winchester Nov., 19 2019 MORE than 19,000 Lidl workers are set for a pay rise – but not until March next year. The supermarket is hiking pay packets to match the new Real Living Wage, which is rising to £9.30 per hour outside London. Employees working in London will see their wages boosted

By Pierre Briancon Nov 19, 2019 Electoral campaigns are the moment when political parties remember that there are more poor than rich voters, and in most western democracies, this is the time when promises to raise the minimum wage flourish. In the U.S., Democratic candidates for their party’s presidential nomination all seem to agree on

BY SARAH EWALL-WICE, AARON NAVARRO – NOVEMBER 16, 2019 Incumbent Governor John Bel Edwards will remain the only Democratic governor in the deep south, after winning a tightly-contested governor’s election against Republican businessman Eddie Rispone Saturday night, according to the Associated Press. The Democratic candidate’s win is a discouraging sign for Republicans and President Donald

November 16, 2019 by wcednews HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Discussions toward raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 are heating up. The move is also an effort to get Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to abandon an extension of overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers. Leaders of the Senate’s Republican majority said