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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 82 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 November 2022 general election , D.C. voters approved Initiative 82 by a margin of 74% to 26%, though about 12% of all participating voters did not vote on ...
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June 2018 primary election , D.C. voters approved Initiative 77 by a margin of 56% to 44%; however, the D.C. Council repealed the initiative in October before ...
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
Hours after the Senate approved a spending framework, President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview that he’s open to approving the spending plan in multiple bills “as long as we get to ...
The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 50-to-49 to pass the "American Rescue Plan" through reconciliation.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
A Republican bill passed the Senate last session with only one opposing vote and also gained the support of a majority of Assembly lawmakers, but it never came to a vote. ... the cost for the ...