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"I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater...but 20 years after graduation, they called."
"I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater...but 20 years after graduation, they called."
8 Things You Need to Know About a New Bill to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage
AFL-CIO
Working people continue to lead the fight for living wages. We support the Wage Act of 2017, introduced today, to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, index it to median wages and increase the minimum wage for tipped workers.
Here are the key details of the legislation, introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.):
1. Gradually raising the wage to $15 by 2024 would directly lift the wages of 22.5 million working people. The average increase would be $5,100 a year, a 31.3% raise.
2. Another 19 million workers would see raises as employers would raise the wages of employees making more than $15 in order to attract and retain more experienced workers.
3. The increase would erase decades of erosion in the value of the real minimum wage. By 2019, the minimum wage would pass the inflation-adjusted high point of 1968.
4. Increasing the minimum wage to $15 would generate $144 billion in additional wages by 2024, money that would overwhelmingly...
He was convicted of raping and killing women at Fort Bragg in 1986 and 1987.
He was convicted of raping and killing women at Fort Bragg in 1986 and 1987.
Maternity care. Mental health. Dentist visits for kids. States trying to save money health insurance are likely to ask to cut these and other services if the latest version of the GOP's health reform bill passes, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
Courtney Kilmer just graduated twice — once with Otterbein College's Class of 2017 and again in an intimate ceremony with those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
Descendants of families whose land holdings date to early Spanish settlers may see it partitioned by President Donald Trump's call for a border wall.
Descendants of families whose land holdings date to early Spanish settlers may see it partitioned by President Donald Trump's call for a border wall.
Descendants of families whose land holdings date to early Spanish settlers may see it partitioned by President Donald Trump's call for a border wall.
