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A Louisiana Senate Committee advanced a bill Thursday to establish the state minimum wage at $15 per hour.
Louisiana is one of only five states with no minimum wage of its own, so the state’s lowest earners’ wages are tied to the federal rate of $7.25 per hour. That hasn’t been raised since 2009 and has failed to keep pace with the cost of living.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, an estimated 695,000 Louisianans would get a raise if the bill becomes a law.
That’s a big if. The proposed wage increase cleared the Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on a party-line vote with the committee’s three Democrats voting in favor of the bill and its two Republicans voting against it.
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Here s How Much Parental Leave You Get in Every U.S. State
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 3/2/21 at 6:30 PM EST
The United States falls behind when it comes to parental and family leave laws. It is the only industrialized nation in the world among 42 countries analyzed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that does not have any federally mandated paid parental leave policy. Several countries do offer extensive parental leave, such as Sweden, that offers robust parental leave with parents sharing 480 days of paid parental leave per child, at 80 percent of the stay-at-home parent s salary.
The COVID-19 pandemic has further demonstrated the need for the United States to update its parental leave policies on both the federal and state levels. While subpar laws surrounding family and parental leave makes things difficult for parents across the country, many state legislatures have introduced bills that will allow for some type of paid parental leave in
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Sam Orner: A Witness At Ludlow
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Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the friends of our murdered fellows in Colorado. We urge upon them to learn well the blood-sealed lesson of class hatred taught them by the masters; let the toilers of America steep themselves in a knowledge of the class war, and act always with that for their guide. No Compromise; No Quarter, politically and economically, must be the burden of their song. Thus only will vengeance for the vampires’ victims be secured.
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“Our soap-boxing began in Albany, New York. Passenger trains furnished the transportation, provided we kept to the “decks” of the dining cars, rode the “blinds” or the water tank behind the coal cab. At likely towns we dropped off to hold open-air meetings.
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