Give Massachusetts a raise
While the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a higher minimum wage than most other states, Raise Up Massachusetts, an organization fighting for better wages, has raised enough support for a 2018 ballot...
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Stephanie Luce discusses the increase of low-wage work worldwide
(Cade Belisle/Daily Collegian) Stephanie Luce, a sociologist and labor studies scholar, discussed the causes and prevalence of low-wage employment in the increasingly globalized economy to a modest...
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Struggle for workers’ rights slowly bear fruit as Walmart raises minimum wage
(Mike Mozart/Flickr) Last Thursday, Walmart announced it would increase the wages of 500,000 of its employees to a minimum of $9 an hour beginning this April, and $10 an hour by Feb.1, 2016. The...
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Million Student March to be held Thursday
(Robert Rigo/Daily Collegian) As the clock neared 6 p.m. Friday, Filipe Carvalho, a senior majoring in economics and finance, sprawled across the floor of Center for Educational Policy and Advocacy’s...
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The fight for comfortable living
(Denis Boucquet/Daily Collegian) Many people view minimum wage increases as bad for our country and hurtful for employment. I read that rising wages cause less employment and higher costs of product. I...
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Minimum wage leads to maximum experience
(Andrew Grier/Flickr) Now that summer has finally come to an end, so too have all of our seasonal jobs. Some of us may have scored fun and interesting internships, others toiled away at camp; and...
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Is America moving left or right?
(Sandra Westbrooks/Flickr) Depending on who you talk to, you might think that Liberals have been slowly taking over the country for the last 40 years, or you may believe that America has been drifting...
View ArticlePoint: Congress should vote for a $15 federal minimum wage
While it is unlikely that a $15 minimum wage will be passed soon, there are no substantive reasons for avoiding an increase in the minimum wage. Some may point to a recent Congressional Budget Office...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Don’t raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats planned to include a $15 an hour federal minimum wage in the latest COVID-19 relief bill that is currently working its way through Congress. The minimum...
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