Ohio GOP Senator proposes minimum wage hike In a surprising departure from the conservative status quo, Ohio's Republican Senator Bill Blessing, has unveiled a proposal aimed at significantly increasing the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour ... 05/3/2024 - 4:07 am | View Link
Group turns in signatures to put minimum wage hike, paid sick leave on Missouri ballot A group fighting for higher minimum wages and paid sick leave submitted 210,000 signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State for 2024 ballot access. 05/2/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
$15 minimum wage inches closer to appearing on Missouri ballot A Missouri Jobs for Justice-backed initiative to put a statewide $15 minimum wage on the ballot has reportedly received nearly double the requisite number of signatures. 05/1/2024 - 12:47 pm | View Link
California Minimum Wage Raised to $20 for Fast Food Workers Thanks to Organizing The results of that deal came to fruition on April 1, 2024, when many of California’s more than half a million fast food workers got one heck of a raise. Thanks to the AB 1228 bill, they now have one ... 04/30/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Seattle City Council takes up changes to new minimum wage law A recent law in Seattle sets minimum pay for delivery apps drivers. The City Council is looking to amend the measure after service charges increased and business for some drivers plummeted. 04/25/2024 - 10:10 pm | View Link
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.