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Tag: Minimum Wage
Fall ballot measures to tackle beer, the minimum wage, fracking and…ballot...
Voters could decide as many as a dozen ballot measures this fall, ranging from whether to allow grocery stores to sell beer and wine,...
‘Patriotic Millionaire’ calls for policies to close wealth gap
DENVER - A member of Patriotic Millionaires, a group that counts Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., and chief executives of Fortune 500 companies among...
Fast food workers storm McDonald’s in Fight for $15
At 26, Andrew Olson is already a veteran McDonald’s employee. But after working for the company for seven years, the Aurora resident only makes...
$15-an-hour minimum wage: If New York can do it, why not...
The same day Vice President Joe Biden stood by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in announcing plans for the first statewide $15-an-hour minimum wage,...
Wiretap: No state’s 40-hour minimum-wage employees can afford an average one-bedroom...
Minimal benefits
This is what the minimum wage means: There's not a state in America in which a full-time worker making minimum wage could afford...
Wiretap: Nation eyes Los Angeles’ $15 minimum-wage experiment
Numbers game
The big jump in L.A. in the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 doesn't just mean a big raise for a lot of...
Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...
Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...
Immigrant janitor joins other workers to Fight for $15
Denver – Immigrant janitor and father Javier Elizalde works full time but does not make enough money to feed his family. On April 15,...
CO protestors to McDonald’s: PR stunt raise not good enough
'We want – $15 and a union.'
#Coleg Notebook: The cycle of poverty meets the cycle of smoothie
The Cycle of Poverty
The Colorado House debated a series of poverty-related bills on Monday. First, lawmakers passed a ban on using Electronic Benefit Cards...