Fighting to Raise the Minimum Wage in PA
Pennsylvania workers continue to be left behind as this state continues to have a minimum wage that keeps workers below
the poverty line,” Sen. Art Haywood said. “The time to increase the wage is now!”
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Haywood Working to Raise the Wage
Minimum Wage Rally
A wage rally was held Today at the Webster’s Bookstore Cafe in State College. At the rally activists business owners and leaders called on state legislature to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to $15 dollars an hour. Those in attendance were State Senator Art...
Group rallies for higher minimum wage on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square
WILKES-BARRE — State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, joined a crowd of local Democratic legislators and organizers for a “Raise the Wage” rally on Public Square, calling on the government to raise the federal minimum wage in order to better serve the American...
Sen. Haywood Announces Raise the Wage Tour
Pa in the midst of inflation and staff shortages. Is it time to raise the minimum wage?
For many years Lobbying by low-wage workers and their supporters, Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has stagnated at the federal level at $ 7.25 per hour for more than a decade. But with the surge in COVID-19 delta mutations, the ongoing labor shortage across Pennsylvania,...
Is Now The Time For PA’s Minimum Wage To Increase?
Despite years of lobbying by low-wage workers and their advocates, Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has stalled at the federal level, $7.25 an hour, for over a decade. But with a faltering economic recovery caused by the surge of COVID-19 delta variant cases, ongoing labor...
Senator Haywood Hosts Labor Shortage Virtual Press Conference
HARRISBURG – May 25, 2021 – Today, State Senator Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) hosted a virtual press conference, to debunk the labor shortage myth and demand raising the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to $15 per hour. Members of the Pennsylvania Senate...
A woman working full-time at minimum wage will earn $14,000 annually.
More than $4,000 BELOW the poverty line for a mother with two children.