The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage: Highest In the United States
Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by the mayor and blessed by labor and business groups alike.
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More Seattles, Please: Appetite Is Growing for a $15 Minimum Wage
From San Francisco to Portland to Chicago, grassroots groups and unions are following in Seattle's footsteps by pushing to institute a $15 minimum wage.
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Why Seattle Is Marching To a $15 Beat
While the federal government mulls a wholly inadequate minimum wage of $10.10, Seattle is poised for $15.
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U.K. Worker Anger Is Rising Over Unfair Living Wage
The Living Wage remains an informal benchmark, and employers get to decide whether or not to pay it.
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Polls Show Vast Majority of Americans Favor Raising Minimum Wage to $10
As the floor falls out from under American workers, big majorities of voters in both parties want the minimum wage raised, making this a core, mainstream issue looking ahead to the 2014 midterm elections.
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With California's Minimum Wage Set to Rise, Business Owners Still Peddling Fear
Labor unions lobbied heavily for the bill that passed the state legislature in September, raising California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016, as business groups and restaurant owners continue to oppose the increase they say will mean layoffs.
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Fast Food Workers Strike Over Low Wages In Nationwide Protests
Thousands of low wage workers went on strike across 100 cities through the day, including Boston, Detroit, New York, Oakland, Los Angeles and St. Louis, signaling the growing clamor for action on income equality.
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The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
Had minimum wage kept up with worker productivity it would be $22/hour today. For a workers movement to win a living minimum wage will require getting corporate-backed politicians unelected from office, and building strength at the workplace level.
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"Fight for 15" Strikes Demand Higher Pay
Nationwide "Fight for 15" strikes calling for higher pay have spurred a debate over what constitutes a living wage and helped shift the labor movement toward direct action.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
