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A 2005 study showed that when San Francisco raised their minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, at the time one of the highest wages in the nation, employees were more likely to remain employed for longer periods of time. Moderate increases in the federal minimum wage result in lower employee separation: meaning lower turnover.  

November 3rd, 2015   Dear Governor Huckabee,   Over the past year, there have been advances in wages for workers. Many cities and states have increased their minimum wages providing millions of impoverished of Americans with a long-overdue raise. But at the federal level, progress is nonexistent. Because of party infighting, futile “Obamacare” repeal efforts […]

November 3rd, 2015 Dear Governor Gilmore,   Over the past year, there have been advances in wages for workers. Many cities and states have increased their minimum wages providing millions of impoverished of Americans with a long-overdue raise. But at the federal level, progress is nonexistent. Because of party infighting, futile “Obamacare” repeal efforts and […]

July 21st, 2015 Dear Secretary Clinton: At the Fight for $15 conference last June, you said that you wanted to be the “champion” of low wage workers, and that you want to fight with low wage workers every day. So why won’t you support a living wage to help them? As the 2016 election gets […]

Yesterday, McDonald’s ran the following full page ad in The New York Times in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. We didn’t think it told the true story. Here’s our corrected, more accurate version of the ad. Tweet this to @McDonalds and let them know it’s time to #RaiseTheMcWage

Thirty million Americans are making less today, adjusted for inflation, than they did 45 years ago in 1968! If the 1968 minimum wage grew with inflation, it would be $10.67 today. Unfortunately the federal minimum wage is a miserly $7.25.  According to the Economic Policy Institute, U.S. CEOs of major companies earned 18.3 times more […]