Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.
Corporations used the “crying wolf” strategy to claim that raising the minimum wage would harm the poor, that Social Security was a slippery slope towards socialism, and that the government has gone “too far” in regulating carbon emissions.
The minimum wage continues to be a powerful tool for fostering economic equity and ensuring a dignified standard of living for workers across the nation.
In total, workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from state minimum wage increases.
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Brandon Johnson, the labor-backed mayor of Chicago, is poised to deliver his first major victory: scrapping the subminimum wage for tipped workers.
Proposals face uphill battle, but backers say they show what they stand for.
The federal minimum hourly wage is just $7.25 and has not increased in 14 years, the longest period of congressional inaction in the history of the minimum wage. The real, cost-of-living-adjusted value of the minimum wage has fallen by 30%.
How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers, their families, and entire communities
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