Category Archives: Press

Time flies when you’re moving backward. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, workers now have less buying power than they did in 1997 at the start of the longest period in history without a raise. It took 10 years, from 1997 until 2007, to raise the minimum […]

As expected, the New York City Council voted Thursday evening to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of a measure that would raise the minimum wage of employees of some companies that receive public subsidies to $11.50 an hour, or $10 an hour with benefits. The vote means that Big Apple businesses that have received $1 […]

Republicans will spend the next four months accusing President Barack Obama of breaking his promises to the American people. But not only conservatives are unhappy. Progressive advocacy groups point out that the president has yet to make good on his promise to raise the federal minimum wage to $9.50 an hour and link it to […]

If today’s minimum wage workers earned the same as their counterparts in 1968, they would receive $10 per hour. That, unfortunately, is $2.75 more than the current federal minimum wage. This would be a serious problem at any time, but it’s particularly relevant now, as the awful economy has forced millions of workers into minimum-wage jobs. (And […]

A group of House Democrats have proposed increasing the minimum wage to $10, which, as Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) pointed out would allow the wage to “catch up” with where it would be had it been allowed to grow with inflation: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and 17 House Democrats, including several Congressional Black Caucus members, […]

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and 17 House Democrats, including several Congressional Black Caucus members, proposed legislation Wednesday that would increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Jackson said his bill, the Catching Up to 1968 Act, is needed to help low-income workers “catch up” to inflation, which he said is eating away at […]