Wages – People's World

Equal Pay Day used to push legislation against pay discrimination

March 25, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Calls go out for wide-ranging and hard-hitting laws to halt the paying of inferior wages to the nation’s women.

Poor People’s Campaign takes voting rights drive to state capitals

March 16, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Raising the minimum wage, ending poverty, defunding war, and saving the planet all depend upon stopping GOP vote suppression.

Poor People’s Campaign targets Manchin in drive for $15 minimum wage

February 12, 2021 By Special to People’s World

The Moral Monday fight for a $15 per hour minimum wage is going to the streets next week.

Tipped workers’ sub-minimum wage is slavery’s legacy; Biden’s plan ends it

February 11, 2021 By Rebekah Entralgo

If it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts.

Dems try to push through school funding, wage increase

February 10, 2021 By Collin Binkley

“We’re going to talk about the state of the economy, the recovery package. We’re going to talk about infrastructure down the road, and also about the minimum wage."