La Grange: A $15 minimum wage would increase paychecks for low-income workers and have the largest impacts on communities outside of the Chicago region, according to a new study from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Full Report: The Regional Impacts of...
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Scott Walker is at it again
With fast food workers on the march nationwide, deep-pocketed corporate interests have quietly turned to state lawmakers for help.
The quiet push uses low-profile legislation to shore up a liability firewall that has made it hard for workers in some industries to pursue their labor rights fully since the mid-1980s. Last month, buried in a stack...
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In The Middle – Fight for 15
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