Minimum Wage Increases Didn’t Hurt Job Growth in Other States; It’s Time for PA to Join the Club
Last week, Michigan passed a bill to increase its minimum wage from $7.40 an hour to $9.25 an hour...
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Pocket Money for a Business Lobbyist Is Real Money for Working Families
On Wednesday, ABC27 did a story on proposals to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania which attributed the following...
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REPORT RELEASED “Living on the Edge: Where Very Low Wage Workers Live in Pennsylvania”
Today we released a new report “Living on the Edge: Where Very Low Wage Workers Live in Pennsylvania.” This comes...
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A Guide to the Creative Use of Numbers by the Business Lobby
The debate over raising the minimum wage can quickly become a fog of studies and numbers. So in the...
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Can You Feel the Minimum Wage Momentum?
On Wednesday, Gap Inc., which operates clothing retailers The Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy, announced that it would...
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Minimum Wage Raise Would Primarily Benefit Adult Workers in PA
In January, the minimum wage rose to $8.25 an hour in New Jersey, $8 in New York, and to...
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More Economy Boosting Jobs, Less Austerity
How do we get our economy growing more robustly again? It’s not through austerity — cutting government spending and...
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A $15-Per-Hour Fast-Food Wage Gets the Time of Day
The second in an occasional series on reducing inequality In the first post in this series, I suggested that...
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California Conservative Proposes $12 Per Hour Minimum Wage
Last week, The New York Times reported that Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley millionaire and past editor of...
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High Road Restaurant Owners Speak Out for Higher Minimum Wage
A few weeks ago, we responded to criticism about the feasibility of a $15-per-hour wage for fast food workers....
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Three Years and Counting on the Minimum Wage
In 1960, George Lesauvage of the National Restaurant Association was making the case against increasing the federal minimum wage....
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Strengthening the Middle Class
On Thursday, Derek Thompson, an associate editor at the Atlantic, wrote a guest post at Ezra Klein’s blog discussing...
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