hour. Although our cost of living is sky-high, we have the lowest minimum wage of any state on the West Coast. Our minimum wage is not enough to allow a working family to afford basics like housing and healthcare in California. The only way to help minimu
Minimum wage, state legislation, health policy, others
The federal minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, and tipped workers make even less, $2.13. That wage has not been increased since 1997. It's buying power is at its lowest since 1949. Fortunately, Oregon minimum wage workers are not forced to work for povert
The Atlanta Living Wage Campaign was initially coordinated by four community organizations, listed below. The campaign continues through the support of over 100 labor, community, and religious organizations in Atlanta.
Ohioans For A Fair Minimum Wage is a coalition of non-profit, community, faith-based, civil rights and labor organizations that believe no one should have to work for $4.25 an hour -- where Ohio's pathetic minimum wage has been mired since 1990. We believ
Minimum Wage bills failed in NM for now when deadline passed
Coalition proposing a constitutional amendment that would increase the minimum wage in Arkansas by $1 an hour (from $5.15 to $6.15) effective January 1, 2007. Starting January 1, 2008, and each January 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would be adjusted base
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George joined Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll, State Legislators and the members of the “Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition” in calling for an immediate increase in the state’s minimum wage to $6