From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): The #FightFor15 is heating up. In Pennsylvania we have a real opportunity to sway our general assembly through our persistent advocacy. Please take a few minutes to read through this email and find out ways … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): The federal minimum wage has not received an increase in nearly a decade. At $7.25 per hour, it is now more than 25 percent below where it was in real terms half a century … Continued
Posted at https://www.keystoneresearch.org/publications/research/MW_FoodServices This policy watch examines the recent growth in the minimum wage, average weekly wages, and employment in Pennsylvania and across Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia. Laws on the … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): EPI has provided the facts and figures for successful minimum wage campaigns in cities and states across the country, from New York City to Minneapolis to Seattle. Over the last five years, we’ve provided … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): As of yesterday, this first day of 2019, 20 U.S. states will raise their minimum wages, lifting pay for 5.3 million workers across the country and 614,000 in four of Pennsylvania’s neighboring states. The increases … Continued
From National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/): Posted October 23, 2018 by Laura Huizar Eighty years ago today on October 24, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) took effect, creating for the first time a federal right to a minimum wage and … Continued
Thursday, August 16, 2018 Steven Martinez, the CAAP Communications Director has offered a perspective on the article CLIP (Coalition for Low Income Pennsylvanians) posted August 2, which came from the American Enterprise Institute. Here is the original post And, thanks … Continued
Posted at https://www.epi.org/publication/the-erosion-of-the-federal-minimum-wage-has-increased-poverty-especially-for-black-and-hispanic-families/ Higher wages were a key plank of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign to reduce poverty. But over the last five decades the real value of the minimum wage—a key tool in the fight against poverty—has steadily eroded, … Continued
From Pennsylvania’s Choice (http://pachoice.org/): There seems to be an overall optimism among state legislators that the Pennsylvania budget will pass on time given the positive revenue numbers in the state, a straight-forward budget proposal by the governor, and no haunting … Continued