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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
Initiative 77 was a voter-approved ballot initiative in Washington, D.C., to phase out the special minimum wage for tipped employees as part of the national Fight for $15 campaign. In the June 2018 primary election , D.C. voters approved Initiative 77 by a margin of 56% to 44%; however, the D.C. Council repealed the initiative in October before ...
Morgan & Morgan was a major donor to the political committee Florida for a Fair Wage, [26] donating the bulk of the $4.15 million raised by the campaign. [27] In October 2019, Morgan announced that he had acquired enough signatures to get the minimum wage amendment on the ballot in November 2020. [ 28 ]
In 2016, she helped raise the minimum wage in California, which increased by $1 each year until full implementation at $15 per hour in 2022. [4] She introduced Assembly Bill 5 , which passed in September 2019 and required many workers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors, providing them more protections under labor ...
Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 115th Congress: Raise the Wage Act H.R. 15: May 25, 2017 Bobby Scott (D-VA) 171 Died in committee S. 1242: May 25, 2017 Bernie Sanders (D-VT) 31 Died in committee 116th Congress: Raise the Wage Act H.R. 582: January 16, 2019 Bobby Scott (D-VA) 205 Passed the House S. 150
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On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [1] was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00 p.m. [2] H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. [3]
Gabriel Acevero (born October 23, 1990) is a Trinidadian–American organizer, activist and politician representing Maryland's 39th House district. On November 6, 2018, Acevero finished in first place with 31% of the vote and became the first openly gay Afro-Latino, and one of the youngest people, elected to the Maryland House of Delegates.