minimum wage

‘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

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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

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Letter: Minimum wage increase in N.H. would do more harm than good

Robert Swanson Feb 23, 2020 To the editor: New Hampshire Democrats are again trying to legislate their bad economic policies at the State House. The latest example is raising the minimum wage. They are blindly pushing for this policy despite its terrible impacts. Last year, New York raised its minimum wage, and in response restaurants

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