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METRO | San Marcos’s limited minimum wage law has gotten little attention
The law, in force since last November, applies only to businesses seeking economic incentives. By Richard Croxdale | The Rag Blog | June 12, 2017 SAN MARCOS, Texas — $15 an hour x 40 hours a week = $600 a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fight for $15, Living Wage, Metro, Minimum Wage, Rag Bloggers, Richard Croxdale, San Marcos
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METRO | ‘Fight for $15’ comes to UT-Austin
One reason workers aren’t making a living wage at UT is that there has not been an across-the-board cost of living pay increase in more than 10 years. By William Rogers | The Rag Blog | January 26, 2015 On … Continue reading
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Raise the minimum wage now
Working people are on the move and grassroots groups are demanding a fair minimum wage. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | April 1, 2014 The experience of increasing poverty, economic marginalization, and the rise of political reaction against … Continue reading
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Tagged Fair Minimum Wage Act, Grassroots Activism, Harry Targ, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Economy
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Lamar W. Hankins : The March for Jobs and Freedom After 50 Years
50 years later:The March for Jobs and Freedom While King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is clearly worthy of distinction, our memories of the event have shunted aside one of the primary purposes of the March: to push for a … Continue reading
Harry Targ : Human Sustainability and the Living Wage
Image from This Magazine The jobs/income problem:How do we sustain human life? Given the vision that animates the progressive majority and the need to build broad coalitions, rebuilding living wage campaigns could be an important part of its organizing future. … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Harry Targ, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Progressive Movement, Sustainability
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