Minimum Wage
Missouri activists fight effort to block St. Louis’ minimum wage increase
March 7, 2017About 50 Show Me $15 (the Missouri chapter of Fight for $15) activists and supporters gathered to testify Monday against Republican-backed bills that would block cities from increasing the minimum wage.
Read moreMissouri Supreme Court upholds St. Louis minimum wage increase
March 1, 2017The city will now raise the minimum wage to $10.00 this year and $11.00 in 2018.
Read moreTrump names Puzder labor secretary, foe of minimum wage hike and overtime pay
December 9, 2016Workers “will not back down, we will stay in the streets to fight back against anti-worker extremism."
Read moreTo November and beyond: #Fightfor15 convention showcases a worker-led movement
August 18, 2016Thousands of low-wage workers from across the country convened in the old capital of the Confederacy for the first ever national Fight for $15 meeting.
Read moreAnalyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers
August 12, 2016Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.
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