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Resources and Reports: Minimum Wage; Low-Wage Workers; The Cost of Voter ID; Ballot Reform; For-Profit Schools
Compiled by Rachel Barr National Employment Law Projects’ new report, “Big Business, Corporate Profits, and the Minimum Wage,” finds that, in most cases, the lowest-paid workers in the United States are employed by large companies instead of small businesses. It … Continue reading
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Tagged election laws, for-profit colleges, minimum wage, voter id
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Raise the Minimum Wage
Think about trying to live on a job that pays the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. How far will your paycheck go? What if you have to drive to that job or pay for daycare for a child? If … Continue reading
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Tagged economic security, inequality, jobs, minimum wage, poverty
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Civil Rights News: Courts Uphold Minimum Wage; Labor Union Opposes Secure Communities Program; MLK Day Rally Focuses on Voting Rights
Court won’t review ruling on tipped employees Washington (AP) The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Applebee’s International to dismiss workers’ complaints that they should earn minimum wage rather than factoring in tips as part of employees’ salaries … Continue reading
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Tagged immigration, minimum wage, voting rights
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Child Poverty Increases in Most States
The data released last week show that by 2010 more than one in five children nationally lived in poverty, which the Census Bureau defines as a household income of $22,113 for a family of four. Child poverty rose in 42 states between 2007 and 2010. For African-American children, the poverty rate is nearly 40 percent as compared to the poverty rate among White children, which was 12.4 percent. Continue reading
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You Should Be Earning at Least $10 an Hour – Get the Facts on Raising the Minimum Wage
A new website from the National Employment Law Project (NELP) is providing information and making the case for raising the federal minimum wage in the U.S. Currently set at $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage has failed to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged fair pay, inequality, low-income people, minimum wage, poverty, worker's rights
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