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The minimum wage is back in the news lately after President Obama pledged to raise it to $10.10 an hour for federal contractors in his 2014 State of the Union address, and it's become yet another ...
That's what happened in Seattle when it raised the minimum wage in 2014. The city called for proposals to study the impact on actual workers earning below the minimum before the law.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Last month, President Barack Obama included in his State of the Union address a plea to Congress to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10. Some people support the idea.
Since the start of these protests, a number of states and cities have increased their minimum wage. In 2014, Connecticut for instance passed legislation to raise the minimum wage from $8.70 to $10.10 per hour by 2017, making it one of about six states at the time to aim at or above $10.00 per hour. [162]
President Obama recently issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 per hour. But how the rise actually work, and who'll be affected by the move? In ...
On the 1st May 2014 Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray announced plans to increase Seattle's minimum wage to $15 per hour incrementally over the next few years. Seattle was the first big city in the United States to raise its minimum wage to $15 after the rise of the "Fight for 15 movement". This policy decision resulted in Seattle having the highest ...
APA minimum wage protest in Seattle It's not everyday 70 percent of the country is in agreement on a hot-button political issue. And yet in a Quinnipiac University poll released in December, seven ...
Last week, President Obama issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 per hour. With McDonald's , Wal-Mart , and many other employers facing ...