Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
Ed Markey: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Maybe Isn’t High Enough
By Tom Joyce February 24, 2020, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey advocates for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, but what about a $20 an hour? Markey sounded game during a recent interview with New Boston Post. Over the past year, some Democrats have signaled support for a minimum wage higher than $15 an hour. Presidential candidate
Minimum wage rate set to increase
By Newswatch Feb. 24, 2020 The hourly national minimum wage rate is going up by 3.8 percent from Saturday. Read More
Good News, America, Your Paycheck Should Grow This Year
By Gabrielle Olya February 24, 2020 If you’re hoping to make more money in 2020, your dream could become a reality. According to a January 2020 analysis by Goldman Sachs, wage growth is continuing to accelerate this year, with earnings expected to grow by 3.5% by the end of the year, CNBC reported. That could
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
‘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
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