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The Hill: Republicans’ Hypocrisy on Minimum Wage
This week, Republicans came out with their official position on the minimum wage in their Republican Platform 2016: “Minimum wage is an issue that should be handled at the state and local level.” That’s a silent but clear “no” to raising the disgracefully low federal...
NELP Action Fund Applauds Missouri Supreme Court’s Decision re: Unemployment Benefit Cuts Pushed by State Legislature
Following is a statement from Christine Owens, executive director, NELP Action Fund: “The Missouri Supreme Court has put down a marker today for economic justice on behalf of workers across the Show Me State. In a case involving a challenge to the Missouri Senate’s...
On the #RaiseItDamnIt Campaign and the Need to Raise the Poverty-Level $7.25 Federal Minimum Wage
The following is a statement from Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project Action Fund: “Today marks yet another year of federal inaction on the minimum wage. Congress last acted to raise the minimum wage almost 10 years ago, and the...
Arizona Republic: Bills Show GOP Hypocrisy on Local Control
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Arizona Republic, NELP Action Fund Staff Attorney Laura Huizar takes that state’s Republican legislators to task for hypocrisy: touting the virtues of local control on the one hand, while repeatedly seeking to thwart local efforts...
Campaigning for $15 Minimum Wage, Bernie Sanders Earns Resounding Win in New Hampshire Primary
Senator Bernie Sanders, who has made a $15 minimum wage a centerpiece of his campaign’s pledge to fight income inequality, won the nation’s first Democratic presidential primary Tuesday in New Hampshire, and did so by a substantial margin. With nearly all the votes...
Big Winners on Election Day: Low-Wage Workers
Measures Raising Wages Pass Across the Board, in Red States and Blue, Sending Signal to Candidates as 2016 Election Cycle Kicks Off WASHINGTON, DC—On Tuesday, voters in four states and three cities passed ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage for an estimated...
Senators Face Pressure to Raise Minimum Wage Ahead of Upcoming Vote
Rubio and Johnson singled out for opposition to raising minimum wage; Donnelly, Nelson, Coons, and Carper urged to co-sponsor Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 Washington, DC – With a vote to raise the federal minimum wage expected in the U.S. Senate soon after...
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