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Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2026
It's not just inflation. Wages are falling behind too : NPR
The Brookings affordability report found nearly 38 million households would be able to get by if workers' wages rose by $10 per hour. But that's a tall order in a nation where the federal minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009...
Saturday, May 2, 2026
CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
When adjusted for inflation, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025, the equivalent of 108 days of free work during that time period. In comparison, CEO compensation increased by 54% between 2019 and 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/01/ceo-pay-workers-minimum-wages
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Minimum wage referendum ramps up signature collection efforts
"When you have billionaires taking space trips for fun but you can't pay people a living wage, we're fighting to make sure that everyone, tipped workers, hourly workers are getting their fair share and nobody has to work two or three jobs in order to take care of their family," Ramsey said during a morning event at Yum Village in Detroit…
Saturday, September 6, 2025
“No tax on tips”: The list of eligible jobs is here | Vox
It invites gaming that will erode the tax base. Trump's policy encourages plumbers, electricians, and various other workers to offer customers a discount rate, if they're willing to pay in "tips." Of course, this sort of tax avoidance is not formally condoned. But it will be extremely difficult to police (especially given the president's defunding of IRS enforcement).
It entrenches a fundamentally inefficient and inequitable approach to compensation. Standardized wages provide workers with predictable incomes and protection against discrimination. Yet Trump's policy is likely to encourage employers to shift more roles into tipped categories, so as to capture its tax advantages. This will yield an economy in which more workers' pay is contingent on the generosity of their patrons (and liable to fall below the federal minimum wage)…
https://www.vox.com/politics/460158/no-tax-on-tips-jobs-workers-list-populism
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0
"There is a huge disconnect between Trump's pro-worker rhetoric and the policies he's putting in place. The gulf is enormous," said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive thinktank. "In his second term, he's been absolutely, brazenly anti-worker."
"I keep thinking about his taking away the Biden-era increase in the minimum wage for federal contractors. It's unbelievably brazen," Shierholz continued. (Trump ended the requirement that federal contractors pay their workers at least $17.75 an hour.) "The minimum wage is incredibly popular. He just took away the minimum wage from hundreds of thousands of workers. That blew my mind." As a result, many full-time workers will see their pay drop by more than $9,200 a year...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/01/labor-day-workers-trump
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
How Republican officials in one state are trying to veto the will of voters (again)
"When Missouri voters were asked last year whether they wanted to increase the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick leave, 58 percent of them said yes. Not long after that vote, the Republicans who control the state government mobilized to unwind those changes. On Thursday, Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, signed into law a bill that limited the voter-approved minimum wage increase and scrapped the paid sick leave requirement altogether..."
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Trump to cut protections for home health aides, migrant farmworkers - The Washington Post
The U.S. Labor Department announced plans this week to slash more than 60 regulations — including eliminating overtime and minimum wage protections for home health care workers and union organizing rights for migrant farmworkers...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Trump Revokes Minimum Wage Raise For Federal Contractors | HuffPost Latest News
President Donald Trump has revoked an executive order from his predecessor that increased the minimum wage for federal contractors, a move that could end up stripping low-wage workers of a pay raise…
Monday, March 17, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say
At company owned by a Trump mega-donor workers brought from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/uline-trump-mega-donors-underpaid-mexican-workers
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Michigan Supreme Court Ruling to Raise Minimum Wage in the State - The New York Times
As a result of the 4-to-3 ruling, labor groups expect Michigan's hourly minimum wage of $10.33 to increase by at least $2 in February, once the state treasurer calculates inflation adjustments. There will be subsequent cost-of-living increases through 2029.
In addition, tipped workers, who currently can be paid as little as $3.84 per hour, will be subject to the same minimum as all other workers by 2029, putting Michigan on a path to be the eighth state to establish a standard wage floor for all workers...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Why McDonald’s has been raising prices - Vox
Businesses don't merely charge what they must in order to meet expenses; they charge what they can get. When consumers have more money to spend, fast food chains tend to have more scope for raising prices without losing business. Since the pandemic, we've seen substantial increases in both demand for quick-service meals, and the costs of food and rent. So, wage growth is by no means solely responsible for the rising cost of Egg McMuffins...
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Monday, January 8, 2024
US House Republican says pay bump would attract ‘credible people’ to office
North Carolina representative Patrick McHenry argues for increase from $174,000 salary, but voted against increasing minimum wage
Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline -- Chapter 6 (Uncertain Hour podcast)
Since the 1990s, most cash welfare recipients have been required to get a job or do mandated “work activities” to receive their monthly check. These requirements are intended to help parents who are struggling financially into jobs that will help keep them out of poverty and off government benefits. But is the work requirement system meeting either of those goals?
According to our analysis of data from Wisconsin, an average of nearly 70% of employed welfare participants worked at temp companies. These companies put people to work in other companies, trying to fill temporary jobs where the work is often grueling and the pay low.
Welfare-to-work has been so good for temp agencies that some of them actively lobby for more work requirements for government benefits through campaign contributions and white papers. “It gives us a pool of more people we can help,” said the CEO of one temp company whose franchises have ranked among the top 10 employers of Wisconsin welfare participants. “A person loses self-esteem when they don’t go back to work. Whether it’s voluntary or involuntary work is very important for their psyche.”
On this episode, host Krissy Clark looks at the cozy relationship between for-profit welfare companies and temp companies desperate to put people to work in some of the country’s most precarious jobs. Plus, a frank discussion with an architect of our modern welfare-to-work system, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. For a deeper dive into the numbers about how private welfare contractors make money and some other eye-popping data, check out the work of our colleagues at APM Research Lab.
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According to our analysis of data from Wisconsin, an average of nearly 70% of employed welfare participants worked at temp companies. These companies put people to work in other companies, trying to fill temporary jobs where the work is often grueling and the pay low.
Welfare-to-work has been so good for temp agencies that some of them actively lobby for more work requirements for government benefits through campaign contributions and white papers. “It gives us a pool of more people we can help,” said the CEO of one temp company whose franchises have ranked among the top 10 employers of Wisconsin welfare participants. “A person loses self-esteem when they don’t go back to work. Whether it’s voluntary or involuntary work is very important for their psyche.”
On this episode, host Krissy Clark looks at the cozy relationship between for-profit welfare companies and temp companies desperate to put people to work in some of the country’s most precarious jobs. Plus, a frank discussion with an architect of our modern welfare-to-work system, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. For a deeper dive into the numbers about how private welfare contractors make money and some other eye-popping data, check out the work of our colleagues at APM Research Lab.
Interview:
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Bernie Sanders unveils plan for $17-an-hour US minimum wage | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian
'In the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages,' Vermont senator says…
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage
In the richest country on earth, if you work 40 hours a week you shouldn't have to live in poverty…
Sunday, April 2, 2023
US Minimum Wage Would Be $42 Today If It Rose as Much as Wall St. Bonuses: Analysis
Citing newly released data from the New York State Comptroller, IPS noted that the average Wall Street bonus has increased by 1,165% since 1985, not adjusted for inflation…
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Congress must listen to working families and overhaul healthcare, minimum wage and education
Americans are united on some of the most important issues facing our country and they want government to address them…
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
American Rehab: Shadow Workforce (Reveal podcast)
Picture stepping into a drug rehab. You’re looking for treatment, but instead, you get hard work for no pay. For decades, this type of rehab has quietly spread across the country. How are rehabs allowed to do this?
Some organizations argue that participants can work without pay as long as they’re provided with housing and treatment. This issue was raised by a cultish organization that recruited dropouts from the hippie movement and had them sew bedazzled designer jean jackets. The clothes became a Hollywood fashion trend, and the unpaid labor propelled a case all the way to the Supreme Court.
The federal government doesn’t track work-based rehabs, so reporter Shoshana Walter spent a year counting them herself. She learned that work-based rehabs are present across the entire country. And the coronavirus pandemic has made the opioid epidemic even more deadly. As one crisis slams into another, we look at how work-based rehabs are turning participants into unpaid essential workers.
Interview:
Some organizations argue that participants can work without pay as long as they’re provided with housing and treatment. This issue was raised by a cultish organization that recruited dropouts from the hippie movement and had them sew bedazzled designer jean jackets. The clothes became a Hollywood fashion trend, and the unpaid labor propelled a case all the way to the Supreme Court.
The federal government doesn’t track work-based rehabs, so reporter Shoshana Walter spent a year counting them herself. She learned that work-based rehabs are present across the entire country. And the coronavirus pandemic has made the opioid epidemic even more deadly. As one crisis slams into another, we look at how work-based rehabs are turning participants into unpaid essential workers.
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