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To be clear: The minimum wage is a women of color issue and it’s far from over because of one procedural ruling. If it wants to deliver on its promise to the American people, and women of color, the Biden administration needs to use whatever means necessary to pass the minimum wage.
It’s looking like the federal minimum wage won’t be increased anytime soon — news that will hit women harder than men.
Plus, new survey data on tipped worker wages and consumer habits
Debate on minimum wage increase continues as Capito introduces new bill By February 25, 2021 - 6:09 pm A moving billboard in support of raising minimum wage to $15 a hour was spotted in Charleston on Thursday. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As a mobile billboard pushing support for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 circled the Charleston office of U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday, she announced she was part of a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10. Capito announced she joined Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), a...
Group rallies in Detroit in support of $15 minimum wage It took its toll, he said. “The stress of maintaining those jobs to keep the bills paid and virtually having my son be raised by day care and other family members caused me to spiral into an alcohol-dependent lifestyle and ultimately caused me to have a mental breakdown early on in my career,” said Burnley, now an executive chef. “Through the grace of God I worked my way out of that, but it is a tough industry and I truly believe that if I was getting paid fairly at one location, and that’s the goal, to get paid fair in one loca...