Excerpted from a Ralph Nader op-ed at USA Today. The long-standing effort to raise the federal minimum wage is approaching showdown time. Opinion polls show consistent support for a raise across the political spectrum. Cities from Washington to San Jose have passed significant local increases, and more are on the way. Last week, President Obama upped the ante with […]
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Ralph Nader Letters to Corporate Dollar Store CEOs
Read Ralph Nader’s letters to the CEOs of Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, and Dollar General. Letter to Family Dollar CEO Howard R. Levine Letter to Dollar Tree CEO Bob Sasser Letter to Dollar General CEO Richard W. Dreiling
Ron Unz: A $12 Minimum Wage: Transforming Policy Idea into Political Reality
As most readers have no doubt already heard, early last week I filed the text of an initiative that would raise California’s minimum wage to $12.00 per hour, a figure far higher than that of any state or city in America. The heavy resulting coverage in The New York Times and numerous other major media […]
Who Got Pay Raises This Decade? D.C. Councilmembers or D.C. Minimum Wage Workers?
The D.C. Council is currently debating whether to raise the minimum wage to $11.50, a level that would: Catch up to the peak federal minimum wage in 1968 which, adjusted for inflation, would be $10.77 today. Set the minimum wage at 41% of the median wage, which is much closer to both: (1) the “half […]