Wages – Page 41 – People's World

Dems try again to raise federal minimum wage to $15

May 26, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

“In the year 2017, a job must lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it."

CEO pay increases to 347 times average workers

May 9, 2017 By Carolyn Bobb

According to the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch, the average CEO of an S&P 500 company made $13.1 million per year in 2016 – 347 times more money than the average rank-and-file worker.

It’s official: St. Louis City will raise the minimum wage

May 2, 2017 By Al Neal

St. Louis now officially joins around 40 other cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago that have raised the minimum wage.

Resisters fight for $15 at Illinois state capital

April 28, 2017 By Earchiel Johnson

“To know that your children can ask you for a 97 cent match box car and you can’t even afford to do that, that's a hurtful thing as a parent."

Minimum wage hike to $15 would give 41 million a raise

April 26, 2017 By Special to People’s World

In the eight years since the federal minimum wage was last raised, the buying power of a minimum-wage paycheck has fallen 10 percent due to inflation.