Minimum Wage - Political News, Research & Updates2014 was a great year for liberals. Marriage equality is sweeping across the nation, the federal courts now have a majority of liberal jurists, America's foreign policy is being reshaped in Obama's image, and both red and blue states voted to choose if they wanted to legalize a plant. Democrats may have lost the Senate, but their priorities surely won in 2014. It's standard in today's American workplace to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. But did you ever wonder where they came up with those numbers in the first place? The short answer, labor unions lobbied Congress for decades until The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt. In the last two State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, the raising of the minimum wage has been brought up. Obama urged the nation to vote on and be in support of proposed legislation that would raise the minimum wage from the national level that it is now at $7.25/hour to a more reasonable sum of $9.00/hr in his 2013 address, and $10.00/hour in his 2014 address.
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After 10 years as a McDonald’s cashier in Los Angeles, Albina Ardon earns just $9.05 an hour. For most of her time there, Ardon, 28, has been deeply frustrated because her... |
|  | Tue Jun 30, 2015 | vox.com
Barack Obama took to the op-ed pages of the Huffington Post to propose a new plan that he claims will extend overtime pay to 5 million new Americans, by making workers... |
|  | Mon Jun 29, 2015 | huffingtonpost.com
It's been a good few days for America.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Affordable Care Act. It is here to stay.
And, Democrats and Republicans in... |
|  | Sun Jun 07, 2015 | vox.com
Hillary Clinton asserted her support for union rights by calling in to a convention of fast-food workers in Detroit Sunday. She used the event to take a not-so-subtle jab... |
|  | Fri May 01, 2015 | vox.com
Happy Basic Income Day! Sure, May 1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about... |
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Chasten Florence was on his lunch break when he decided to join a protest outside a McDonald’s in New York City on Wednesday. To be honest, Florence wasn’t really sure what... |
|  | Mon Mar 16, 2015 | motherjones.com
This statistic provides a pretty compelling snapshot of the severity of our income gap: In 2014, Wall Street's bonus pool was roughly double the combined earnings of all... |
|  | Thu Feb 19, 2015 | reuters.com
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said it would raise entry-level wages to $9 an hour, a 24 percent increase from the U.S. minimum wage that some employees now earn, succumbing... |
|  | Sun Feb 15, 2015 | money.cnn.com
The Obama administration is expected to move forward soon on its plan to provide overtime pay protections to low-salaried managers who don't qualify for them.
The move... |
|  | Fri Jan 09, 2015 | salon.com
If the U.S. didn’t have a labor movement, Americans would have to invent one. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka understands that, so that’s what he’s trying to do.
I... |
Minimum Wage Videos |  | Sat Jul 26, 2014
Mary Poppins (Kristen Bell) is working for minimum wage, and really needs a raise. |
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Why Democrats need to be more aggressive in the mid terms, Seattle moves towards a 15$ minimum wage and more states... |
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Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a floor speech on raising the minimum wage, on April 3, 2014. |
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President Obama travels to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and delivers remarks explaining the critical... |
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With President Obama's most recent call to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, the issue is once... |
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See who raised the minimum wage and when throughout history. |
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President Obama talks to a fry cook about the battle his administration faces against Congressional Republicans who... |
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The impact of a minimum wage hike is one of the most hotly debated issues in economic research. But a growing body... |
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The new year is bringing some changes when it comes to employment in new York State. Unemployment benefits end... |
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