By Lindsay Fendt Oct. 16, 2019 @ 10:02 p.m Denverites crowded into a room at the Carla Madison Recreation Center on Wednesday night for a town hall to discuss a proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021. While the restaurant industry and some small businesses have come out publicly against the

By Dylan Wiggan OCT 17 2019 Cambridge City Council is working with businesses to help them develop local corporate social responsibility approaches to reduce poverty in Cambridge. It is also encouraging business to pay their staff the Real Living Wage, to help tackle poverty and provide a wide range of benefits to businesses themselves. To

By: Caroline Morse Oct 16, 2019 @ 6:35 PM HAGERSTOWN, Md. (WDVM) — Washington County officials began discussing how to address the state’s mandate to annually increase the minimum wage. Officials are proposing a 49% increase from $10.10 to $15 in 2025. However, Chief Financial Officer Sara Greaves advised the council to not ignore the

By ADORA NAMIGADDE OCT 16, 2019 Mayor Andrew Ginther says state lawmakers took away municipalities’ ability to raise the minimum wage, so Columbus officials decided to raise the pay of city employees. “We believe that anybody who works 40 hours a week and is working hard and playing by the rules should not live in

Oct. 14, 2019 Oct. 14 (UPI) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled a tax reform plan Monday that would overturn wholesale changes to the U.S. code made by President Donald Trump’s administration nearly two years ago, and restore the corporate tax rate to 35 percent. Sanders outlined the move in a proposal titled “Corporate

October 15, 2019 – Chairwoman Priscilla Wong says government-appointed body can’t guarantee increase and dismisses calls for annual review – Ongoing anti-government demonstrations and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing cited as causes of economic uncertainty The government-appointed Minimum Wage Commission has refused to rule out the possibility of freezing it in future, citing the