minimum wages

There’s one debate I just can’t wrap my hands around. That’s the debate on minimum wage. I want to challenge our legislators. I want to challenge our legislators to live and raise their families on minimum wage for three months. I can’t believe we have legislators that are against raising the minimum wage...

Does the Alabama Legislature want to do anything that is good for the people that put them in office? I was just reading an article about a committee in the Alabama House of Representatives approving a bill that would prohibit cities and counties from setting their own minimum wages...

I wish the people who are against minimum wage had to live on minimum wage for a month. Or even try living on the proposed increased minimum wage. The Birmingham City Council voted to raise minimum wage Tuesday.  And as usual there’s opposition against minimum wage...

Representative Darrio Melton has challenged his colleagues to do something a lot of us do every day. He challenged them to live off $5 dollars per day.This is his attempt to bring awareness to the difficulty of living on minimum wage.

I learn something new every day.  I just learned that Alabama is one of only states in the country that hasn’t set its own minimum wage. What makes the federal government think that $7.25 an hour is a living wage anyway.  Federal employees don’t make minimum wage...

Minimum wage would be $22.00 an hour if it were left up to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. The Senator made a case for increasing the minimum wage last week during a Senate Committee on Health, Labor and Pensions hearing.