By Alex Lasry This week, I announced my new plan to help put more money in working peoples’ pockets. The people of Wisconsin want to see real change and real results that will help impact their … [Read more...]
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Raising Wisconsin’s Minimum Wage Would Significantly Cut Poverty. So Why Is It Still $7.25?
Gretchen Gerlach (Wisconsin Watch) Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on … [Read more...]
They Want More in the Fight for $15
By Nyesha Stone Many Americans, and people throughout the world, eat at fast food restaurants. Customers love to have their food fast and ready, but that doesn’t mean they care about whose … [Read more...]
ICYMI: County Executive Chris Abele Lays Out Path to $15/Hour Minimum Wage
MILWAUKEE – Ahead of his 2017 budget proposal, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele announced a series of investments in Milwaukee’s future, to include a sustainable path towards a living … [Read more...]
An Overview of Minimum Wage Laws
By Eelisa Jones Earlier this year, leading 2015 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told the Washington Times that a lowered U.S. minimum wages would allow the United States the ability … [Read more...]
Protesters’ Calls for Minimum Wage Increase Ignored by GOP Candidates
By Ariele Vaccaro Milwaukee protesters’ requests for a minimum wage hike up to $15 fell on deaf ears on Tuesday evening. The group Fight for 15 picketed outside the Milwaukee Theater -- the … [Read more...]
The “Give America a Raise” bus tour comes to Milwaukee
Washington DC – Americans agree: No one who works should live in poverty. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening to workers around the country earning minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has stayed … [Read more...]
Supervisor Bowen calls proposed bill an attack on “living wage”
Milwaukee County Supervisor David F. Bowen this week criticized a bill proposed by Rep. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, and Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, which would prohibit Milwaukee County from … [Read more...]
Congressional Progressive Caucus call to end wage theft, and raising minimum wage
By Lynda Jones, Editor Back in May, hundreds of Milwaukee fast-food and retail workers rallied and marched a one-day protest to demand higher wages and better work conditions from these … [Read more...]