From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): On March 31, President Biden announced a major infrastructure package that invests in rebuilding our economy, creating millions of jobs, and protecting our health, lands, air, water, and climate. This is a huge step … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/29/minimum-wage-would-be-44-today-if-it-had-increased-same-rate-wall-st-bonuses Published on Monday, March 29, 2021 by Common Dreams “Since 1985, the average Wall Street bonus has increased 1,217%, from $13,970 to $184,000 in 2020.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer A coalition of activists gathered outside the … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): What surprised EPI Economist Kyle K. Moore when crunching the numbers for our latest report on state unemployment by race and ethnicity? The fact that the historical unemployment gap between Black and white workers … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Facts are facts: March 24 is Equal Pay Day for women across the country, a day that highlights the persistent pay gap by marking how far into the year women of all races and ethnicities, on … Continued
Take action through the ELCA Action Center. (NOTE: You do not need to be Lutheran to use this.) Congress created the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994 with broad bi-partisan support. VAWA is an essential tool in combating gender-based … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Here we are, 12 months into this pandemic, 500,000 people lost, and we still haven’t passed a permanent national paid leave law, even though the research is abundantly clear that paid leave in a pandemic saves … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.krc-pbpc.org): Governor Wolf is calling on the General Assembly to raise the minimum wage to $12 in July 2021, followed by 50-cent yearly increases until July 2027 when the minimum wage would be … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2021-03-04/livable-wages-working-families/report-raising-minimum-wage-good-for-all-pennsylvanians/a73412-2 March 4, 2021 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Women make up more than 60% of those who would see an increase in wages. (insta_photos/Adobe Stock) HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new report showed raising … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Workers collective-bargaining rights hang in the balance. For decades, our rights to form a union and negotiate a fair return on our work have been under attack. Right now, in Alabama, Amazon warehouse workers are … Continued
From the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (http://www.philaup.org/): The Philadelphia Unemployment Project is launching a state-wide petition demanding that Gov. Wolf and Lt. Gov. Fetterman immediately fix our state’s broken unemployment system. Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians have gone weeks missing payments, unable to … Continued