Tag: minimum wage

Andrew Puzder is a longtime Republican donor who’s been a vocal critic of raising the minimum wage, the Fight for 15, expansion of overtime pay, paid sick leave and the Affordable Care Act.

A federal minimum wage increase may be unlikely under President Trump, but low-wage workers have already won major victories.

It was an otherwise bright spot for left-leaning voters, on a night punctuated by shocking Republican gains.

A new report concludes that current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour doesn’t come close, anywhere in the United States.

It may be of some serious interest to both voters and opposing companies that the DNC doesn’t seem to hold steadfast to its values when it comes to asking for, and accepting, money.

Several other cities have passed minimum wage laws, promising to have a minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2020 or 2021.

A minimum wage worker who wants to afford a two-bedroom apartment has to hold down nearly three full-time jobs.

As Trump is willing to say anything at any time in order to get votes, one can never discount the possibility of a future flip-flop.

The fact that Sanders has immediately embraced this executive order raises a fundamental question for Clinton: Does she really want to be on the wrong side of an issue that is a defining economic justice standard for the workers she needs to win the White House?

Alabama currently has the 48th highest poverty rate in the country, yet their Governor refuses to give them anything above the ridiculously low federal minimum wage.