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Minimum Wage Challenge leads to victory for workers!
April 10, 2014 Thanks in part to the Minimum Wage Challenge, Minnesota will raise its minimum wage from $6.15 to $9.50 an hour for most workers by 2016. The decision will give 357,000 Minnesota workers a much-needed raise. State Representative John Lesch documents his week living on minimum wage and the challenges he's facing. Read more >>> Over the past week, five Minnesota lawmakers have taken the Working America Minimum Wage Challenge, calling attention to the struggles of low wage workers by living one week on a minimum wage budget. Read more >>> When a snow storm slows down the state, minimum wage earners are hurt the most, having to scramble to find child care, or risk not going to work and earning a paycheck. Read more >>> Minnesota State Rep. Karen Clark spends an evening trying to find affordable housing with a budget of just $375 a month. Can she do it? Read more >>> All too often, political issues in Minnesota are presented as pitting the interests of the Twin Cities metro area against those of the rest of the state, also known as “Greater Minnesota. Read more >>>
Day 3: What type of housing does a minimum wage get you?
February 20, 2014 State Representatives went grocery shopping today to see what they can afford on a normal minimum wage earner's budget of $5 a day. Read more >>> A new poll in Minnesota shows that 79% of Minnesotans support raising the minimum wage. Read more >>>
Day 2: Dinner’s served—representatives go grocery shopping with their minimum wage earnings
February 19, 2014 Today is the second day of the Minnesota Minimum Wage Challenge, and the representatives are putting their budgets to good use. Five Minnesota politicians aren’t just talking the talk about raising the minimum wage, they are walking the walk too. Read more >>> Starting today, Minnesota State Reps. Karen Clark (Minneapolis), Frank Hornstein (Minneapolis), John Lesch (St. Paul), Jason Metsa (Virginia), and Shannon Savick (Wells) are doing the unthinkable and pledging to live on the current $7.25 minimum wage for one week in order to push for a higher minimum wage of $9.50 an hour. Read more >>> Working Minnesota is asking community leaders and elected officials to take the “Minimum Wage Challenge” for one week, Feb. 18-25. They’re going to find out — in Mankato, Hibbing, Rochester, Moorhead, Duluth and other communities — what it’s really like to plan a budget, buy groceries, find a place to live and manage transportation on just $290 each week. Read more >>>
Rally to Raise the Minnesota Minimum Wage
Please join Working Minnesota and our coalition partners on the first day of legislative session to let our elected leaders know: Minnesota needs a raise! Tuesday, February 25 State Capitol Rotunda
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