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The impact on employers and workers within the restaurant industry is a major focus of the Fight for $15 movement. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants and other food services employ about sixty percent of all workers paid at or below the minimum wage, as of 2018. [57]
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June 2018 primary election , D.C. voters approved Initiative 77 by a margin of 56% to 44%; however, the D.C. Council repealed the initiative in October before ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to ...
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
Trump said he favored the “big beautiful bill” from House Republicans, a more politically fraught package that includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts but slashes government programs and services.
The Senate passed a budget resolution on Friday, allowing Democrats to move forward with President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. But there’s no guarantee they have enough votes for ...
Gonzalez successfully sponsored and passed multiple pieces of legislation in California aimed at increasing healthcare access and putting more protections in place for workers. 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 ]
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 ]