Minimum Wage

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January 12, 2014
NBC News - A staggering number of women across the country are still teetering on the verge of poverty and…
November 6, 2013
(AP) - Voters across the country faced ballot measures Tuesday ranging from whether to approve seven casinos in New York…
September 25, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has put his signature on a bill that will hike California's minimum wage…
September 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration approved new rules Tuesday that extend minimum wage and overtime pay to nearly 2…
September 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On this Labor Day, the nation is witnessing a new movement to improve the living standards of…
August 29, 2013
NBC News - The battle to boost the minimum wage escalated Thursday when thousands of workers at hundreds of fast…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On August 29, the day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, fast-food workers around…
July 30, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Workers at McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants across New York walked out Monday in a…
July 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In an interview with the New York Times, President Obama warned that racial tensions in America might…
July 10, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wal-Mart says it won't build three stores it had planned for the District of Columbia if lawmakers…
January 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - African-Americans make up about 15.1 percent of the 73.9 million minimum wage earners in America...
June 7, 2012
It appears federal lawmakers can agree on one thing. Reps. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) and Dennis Kucinich
December 30, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Although some workers are worried about their paychecks for the next year, more than a million other…
June 8, 2011
OPINION - We can simply can not say we have Haiti's best interests at heart and simultaneously work diligently to…
July 24, 2009
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