Tag: wage

March 1, 2021

So Senate Democrats, and the White House, seem to be backing off. House progressive Democrats are pushing back with ...

$15 federal minimum wage hike is now the biggest stimulus bill issue. Here’s why

Will minimum wage workers see a pay raise anytime soon? Sarah Tew/CNET Although the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed ...

Failing to raise the minimum wage is the same thing as voting to give a massive gift to corporations

Republicans are well aware that no economist, not even Adam Smith, ever believed that a completely unregulated market would ...

Democrats Toil to Salvage Wage Increase, With Stimulus Plan on the Brink of Passage

If Democrats cannot find a way to include the wage increase in the stimulus measure, the bill could lose ...

Republicans Grapple With Raising the Minimum Wage

WASHINGTON — The policy debate over raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is the latest fault ...

Democrats come up with Plan B for raising the minimum wage. Republicans keep lying about it

Republicans, meanwhile, are spewing an avalanche of fecal lies about the minimum wage. “I started working by bussing tables at the ...

Senate official deems minimum wage hike out for COVID-19 relief, so Democrats find a new approach

Campaign Action Nevertheless, there seems to be no stomach in the White House for challenging that ruling. The White House released a ...

Biden economic adviser doesn’t rule out ending filibuster to pass $15 minimum wage

Vice President Kamala Harris won't overrule the Senate parliamentarian's ruling on excluding the $15 minimum wage proposal from a ...

Mamata Banerjee announces daily wage hike for workers under urban job scheme in Bengal