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Washington State Latest to Sign Bill Against Wage Theft
Mar 18, 2010
Washington state Governor Christine Gregoire signed a bill to combat wage theft this week, adding Washington to a growing number of states and counties, including Miami-Dade County, cracking down on employers who underpay workers (many of them undocumented immigrants) and violate minimum wage and overtime rules. -
Montana Defeats Attack on Minimum Wage, Cost-of-Living Increases for Working Families
Feb 12, 2009
Recently conservatives in Montana sought to roll back the annual cost-of-living wage increases for minimum wage workers that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2006 by 73-27%. Montana is one of twenty-seven states (plus the District of Columbia) that has a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage, and one of eleven states that index the minimum wage to the consumer price index. Montana progressives successfully fought a conservative push by the restaurant industry to keep wages stagnant. -
Indexing Minimum Wage to Inflation Critical for Low-Income Working Families
Jan 08, 2009
Washington State minimum wage workers got a raise January 1st to $8.55 per hour -- now the highest minimum wage in the country. Like nine other states, Washington automatically increases its minimum wage each year at the rate of inflation to make sure families don't face a de facto pay cut as rising costs eat into family budgets. Because the federal minimum wage is not indexed to inflation in this way, we have seen a decline in its value from $9.34 in inflation-adjusted dollars down to just $6.55 per hour this past year. This trend highlights why state efforts to index the minimum wage to keep up with inflation are so critical. -
The Financial Bailout and the Challenge for the States: De-Leveraging Working Families
Sep 29, 2008
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Fed and Treasury officials have identified the disease. It's called de-leveraging, or the unwinding of debt. During the credit boom, financial institutions and American households took on too much debt." But let's not buy into a false equivalence of "financial institutions" and those "American households" borrowing beyond their means.
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