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Arizona becomes the fifth state where voters may decide a minimum wage increase on Election Day 2016.
The Fight for $15 has changed our country’s economic trajectory and begun to reverse decades of growing wage inequality.
On the heels of California’s action, a tremendous win for workers in the Fight for $15 in the state where(…)
The deal means big raises for nearly 1 in 3 workers, reversing years of falling pay.
1 in 3 workers in the state will see a pay boost under nation’s first statewide $15 minimum wage.
The potential California action marks a rapid acceleration of the $15 minimum wage movement.
This is a very big deal, says NELP’s Paul Sonn.
Nearly a quarter of the state’s workforce would benefit directly from pay increases under the plan.
3.2 million workers will see earnings rise an average of 23 percent by mid-2021 in New York State.