Closing the Wage Gap

Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.

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

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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

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Groups divided on minimum wage

By: Carol Sanders | The Brandon Sun | Aug 11, 2022 WINNIPEG — Business and labour groups in Manitoba can’t agree on what the new provincial minimum wage should be, with a government announcement expected within the next two weeks. (Read More)

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