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Category Archives: minimum wage
RELEASE: IOWANS CALL ON GOVERNOR, LEGISLATURE TO RAISE MINIMUM WAGE
For Immediate Release: January 4, 2017 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0133 IOWANS CALL ON GOVERNOR, LEGISLATURE TO RAISE MINIMUM WAGE 18 states saw increase take effect on January 1st, while Iowans have waited longer than anyone in the country for … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Iowa legislature 2018, minimum wage, Progress Iowa
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Iowa-stan
Iowa Needs You, Donald Kaul! Considering the coming of what promises to be a MEMORABLE Iowa legislative session this spring, my mind wandered to days of yore when a young writer for the Des Moines Register would annually make fun … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Health Care & Medicare, Iowa legislature 2017, minimum wage, wage theft, working poor
Tagged Branstad privatizing Medicaid, Donald Kaul, Iowastan
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TODAY! Statewide Press Conferences Celebrating Minimum Wage Increases
MEDIA ADVISORY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Johnson County: Rafael Morataya, 319-499-8363, rafael@cwjiowa.org Linn County: Devin Mehaffey, 319-573-0701, devinpmehaffey@gmail.com Polk County: Mark Cooper, 515-975-5627, mark@scifl.org Wapello County: Steve Siegel, 641-799-2569, sj_siegel@yahoo.com Workers Celebrate Wage Increases in Four Counties Residents Vow to … Continue reading
Posted in Iowa legislature 2017, minimum wage, Progress Iowa, wage theft
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$15 An Hour? You Bet!
Here is a brief video from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI) concerning the move for a minimum wage of $15 per hour in Polk County. $15 an hour works out to slightly over $30,000 per year before taxes for … Continue reading
Posted in Labor, minimum wage, Walmart
Tagged Nick Hanauer, subsidies for corporations
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What Is The Difference Between A Minimum Wage Worker And You?
by Jennifer Hauff When I last lived on minimum wage, I shared a one bedroom apartment with a friend I met at work. She had a mattress and a dresser in her room. I had a bunch of blankets and … Continue reading
Posted in economic inequality, Economy, minimum wage
Tagged economic inequality, minimum wage, poverty in Iowa
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“So That A Positive Conservative Message”
“can rise to the top of the field.” This is a line that Scott Walker used in his speech retiring his presidential bid for this round. BTW, look out Wisconsin – Walker will be wanting to burnish his right wing … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Economy, Education, firearms, gun control, Immigration, Income inequality, Internet Issues, Labor, Medicare, minimum wage, Republican hypocrisy, Social Security
Tagged Scott Walker
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Poverty Vultures
Out of sight of the eyes of anything resembling reporters the poverty industries in the USA are cranking along in high gear. Most of these are protected from any harm by Republicans from the county courthouse through the state house … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Jobs, minimum wage, poverty, working poor
Tagged poverty industries, working poor
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Wide Benefits Projected In County Minimum Wages In Iowa
FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, AUG. 11, 2015 CONTACT: MIKE OWEN, (319) 338-0773, mikeowen@iowapolicyproject.org For full report: http://www.iowapolicyproject.org/2015docs/150811-minwage.pdf IPP News Wide benefits projected in county minimum wages in Iowa In Linn, Johnson, $15 wage would boost combined 43,000 workers IOWA CITY, … Continue reading
Posted in economic inequality, Economy, Hunger In America, Income inequality, Iowa Policy Project, Jobs, minimum wage
Tagged Johnson County minimum wage
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Wages, Jobs, Child Care, Wage Theft: The Courtney Report
Note: This is edited from the weekly email report from Senator Courtney. To see the full report please go to Senator Courtney’s website. Note2: This post missed the schedule last week. To make sure that important info in here is … Continue reading
Posted in Courtney, Courtney Report, Economy, Education, Iowa Legislature, Iowa legislature 2015, Iowa Policy Project, Jobs, minimum wage
Tagged child care, wage theft in Iowa
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Republicans Fake Concern About Income Inequality
The Iowa senate passed a raise in minimum wage Monday on pretty much of a party line vote. One Republican joined twenty six Democrats to pass the bill. This would be good news if Democrats controlled the other legislative House … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Economy, Elizabeth Warren, GOP, Iowa Policy Project, Jobs, minimum wage, poverty, Republican hypocrisy, Republicn Policy, Walmart
Tagged mark dayton, Minnesota, Scott Walker, Wisconsin
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