By: Kim Lyons – June 21, 2023 PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County Council on Tuesday voted to override County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto of a bill to raise the minimum wage for county workers. The legislation calls for the county to pay workers a minimum of $18 an hour beginning in 2024, which increases to $19

By Aman Kidwai June 15, 2023 Gig economy jobs are not easy. But in New York City, some of them are about to pay more. The yearslong push for better pay for gig workers has made some progress over the last month. In late May, Minnesota’s Senate passed a bill guaranteeing a minimum wage of

By WMTW Jun. 15, 2023 AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) – Both chambers of the Maine legislature recently passed a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by January, but the future of the bill still remains unclear. “An Act to Create a Livable Wage by Increasing the Minimum Hourly Wage,” sponsored

By Donald Judd March 15, 2022 The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce a series of steps aimed at closing the gender and racial wage gaps, with Vice President Kamala Harris hosting a virtual White House meeting to mark Equal Pay Day. The steps include a new regulation across the federal workforce banning the use of prior

By Joelle Fishman June 9, 2023 HARTFORD, CT – Striking group home and day program caregivers marked week two of their strike against poverty with a rally at Emanuel Lutheran Church, followed by a march to the State Capitol, as Nobel prize winning economist Paul Stiglitz issued a statement of support indicating that the strike

By Joe McLean June 8, 2023 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) – Multiple efforts are underway to collect enough signatures to place a minimum wage increase question on that ballot for Missourians in 2024. One proposed amendment, submitted by Kansas City labor organizer Terrence Wise, would see the minimum wage increased from the current $12.00 per