Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
Salt Bae’s Meat Empire Is Rife With Labor Problems
By Laura Wagner, Feb 3, 2020 Three years ago, Salt Bae became a living meme for flamboyantly sprinkling salt on meat. Since he first went viral in early 2017, he’s added some new moves to his repertoire: spanking and lubricating the meat, seasoning the meat with a comically oversized pepper grinder, and ostentatiously wrapping the meat in edible gold, as well as allegedly not
Start Saving ‘Cause Ya Groceries Went Up By Almost Triple What Minimum Wage Did For 2020
By Kassia Byrnes March 02, 2020 I don’t think anyone can deny Australia is an exxy place to live these days – particularly if, like me, you’re sadly addicted to living in Sydney and therefore need rich person wages to ever leave the house (I don’t leave the house much). But how much can minimum
Letter: Minimum wage was never meant to be a “living wage”
By Roy Feb 3, 2020 Having lived 71 years I can tell you, minimum wage was never meant to be a “living wage,” It was for entry level jobs, teens, college students, part-timers and less highly trained individuals. Being locked into minimum wage encouraged further training/education to improve ones standard of living. Continuing to raise
Businesses, employees adjust to $12 minimum wage
by Joycelyn Cabrera – Feb 3, 2020 As the final fixed increase to minimum wage hits, local businesses are adjusting. Jan. 1, the state of Arizona increased minimum wage from $11 to $12, after several increases from previous years. In 2021 and beyond, Arizona’s minimum wage will change based on the cost of living in the state. Local
State could bill City of Flagstaff $840,000 for minimum wage reimbursement
By Adrian Skabelund Feb 4, 2020 Flagstaff may have to pay the state of Arizona more than $840,000 over the next two fiscal years to cover the cost of the higher local minimum wage. The numbers give city officials their first taste of how a state law passed last year might affect Flagstaff. City Management
Nursing home question carrying $272 million cost
By Colin A. Young Jan 28, 2020 Supporter after supporter testified Tuesday in favor of a potential 2020 ballot question updating rates paid by state government to nursing homes, leading Sen. Patricia Jehlen to question where the money to pay the new, higher rates would come from. “Who’s going to pay for this? We don’t