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One of the outstanding issues in current legislative negotiations over the minimum wage involves “indexing,” which refers to the practice of annually adjusting the minimum wage so that it keeps pace with inflation.
Did you know that the average cost of meeting basic needs for a family of four in Minnesota is over $58,000 annually? That means a couple with two children would have to work 155 hours a week – two fulltime jobs each – to provide for their family.
On Saturday, a Minneapolis art gallery will host a one-day exhibit of works that brings to life the debate over raising Minnesota’s minimum wage. The twist? Gallery-goers will have the opportunity to purchase artworks at any price they choose – as long as it is at or above minimum wage.
If you have more money, you’re more likely to be healthy, according to a new report by the Minnesota Department of Health. Advocates say it provides more evidence of the need to raise the state’s minimum wage.
Congressman Keith Ellison will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Dinner, planned Thursday, March 27, in Oakdale.
Minnesota’s projected $1.23 billion budget surplus is good news, but lawmakers should exercise caution in spending it, union leaders said.
As they slash their workforces and pressure employees to work harder, U.S. airlines are poised to make record profits this year. But workers like Abdi Ali don’t expect to benefit.
A legislative conference committee convened Thursday to consider an increase in Minnesota’s minimum wage, as workers continued a week of action to call attention to the problem of low wages.
Laborers Union President Terry O’Sullivan and AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Ed Wytkind hailed President Barack Obama’s push to get Congress to enact a $302 billion, four-year, mass transit and highway construction bill. And AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka? “Bring it on!” Obama launched his latest push for the legislation in a speech Wednesday in St. Paul. He lauded the Twin Cities’ new light rail line – and said the U.S. needs to upgrade its infrastructure. He told his audience that he’s focusing on infrastructure because time and money are running out. “If Congress doesn’t finish a transportation bill by the end of the summer, we could see construction projects stop in their tracks, machines sitting idle, workers off the job,” he warned. The president’s budget will rebuild transportation infrastructure responsibly “over four years, which gives cities and states and private investors the certainty they need to plan major projects. Projects like repairing essential highways and bridges; building new transit systems in fast-growing cities and communities, so folks who live there can get to work and school every day and spend less time sitting in traffic. “All told, my transportation budget will support millions of jobs nationwide.
On the first day of the legislative session, before a crowd of hundreds in the Capitol rotunda, the leaders of the Minnesota Legislature vowed to act quickly to raise the state’s minimum wage.
