Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
City of Austin employees push for minimum wage raise
By: Blake DeVine | kxan | Aug 17, 2022 AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Austin has become pricey, city employees making minimum wage have had their pay rate remain flat at $15 per hour. That could change today, as Austin City Council will review the fiscal year 2022-23 budget. Back in June, council unanimously passed a resolution that made their
What’s behind next year’s 9% minimum wage increase in Denver and Colorado
By: Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun | Aug 16, 2022 Restaurants knew an increase was coming in 2023 but the 9% seems shocking to some as Denver’s minimum wage goes to $17.29 and Colorado’s to $13.68. But others say wages have not kept up with inflation. (Read More)
Minimum wage in Denver will increase next year to more than $17 per hour
By: Kieran Nicholson | The Denver Post | Aug 16, 2022 The minimum wage in Denver will increase to $17.29 per hour beginning January 1, an annual adjustment based on the Consumer Price Index. Denver will be among several dozen cities nationwide with minimum wages over $17 per hour, city officials said in a news release.
Lawmaker outlines new effort to hike minimum wage in New York
By: Kate Lisa | Spectrum News | Aug 15, 2022 Some labor unions and progressive state lawmakers want to make an annual increase in the minimum wage a top priority next session. A bill to implement a permanent increase to the state’s minimum wage rate set to the Consumer Price Index, died this session, but
Portland, Maine Voters to Decide on Raising Minimum Wage, Eliminating Tip Credit, and Classifying Ride-share and Delivery Drivers as Employees
By: Steve Silver | Lexology | Aug 11, 2022 The Portland, Maine City Council voted unanimously on August 8, 2022, to send five citizen-initiated referendums to voters in the November election. One of the referendums that will appear on the November 8 ballot – “An Act to Eliminate the Sub-Minimum Wage, Increase the Minimum Wage
City and county of Denver set to increase local minimum wage to $17.29 an hour for 2023
By: 9NEWS | YouTube | Aug 10, 2022 The scheduled increase comes from the city’s local minimum wage ordinance that was approved in November 2019. (Read More)