With Stage 2 of the province’s “Open for Summer Plan” expected to begin June 10, some Whitecourt businesses may benefit while others are waiting for Stage 3 to…
Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic? by Jacob Thomas | May 27, 2021
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Social critics typically have the role of highlighting negative or problematic aspects of society, particularly when everything appears to be going well; however, during difficult, uncertain and chaotic periods of history, they can perform a potentially equally important role of pointing out positive changes that can emerge from a catastrophe. Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic?
This paper highlights ten ways COVID-19 simultaneously exposes fundamental problems in societies and necessitates that we address them if we are all not to collectively suffer more now and later when another pandemic arrives. I recognize that some of these examples may seem to be mentioned too soon, the changes that have happened are possibly temporary, and this is by no means a complete list
Millions of workers could benefit, but opponents says millions of other people could lose their jobs. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 9:03 PM EST January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON It s been more than a decade, but tens of millions of minimum wage workers could be getting a pay raise.
Now that Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, there s a new push on Capitol Hill to hike the federal minimum wage.
Under the Raise the Wage Act, the national minimum wage would increase from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025.
The last time it went up? Nearly 11-and-a-half years ago, in July of 2009.
The Senator says the law would target people considered hard to hire .
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FILE- In this Wednesday, June 3, 2020 photo, cashier Rosario Vargas, center, bags groceries for customers at the Presidente Supermarket in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Florida voters decide Tuesday whether to raise the state s minimum wage to $15 an hour over six years, which advocates say will benefit hundreds of thousands of workers in the Sunshine State s service-heavy economy but which opponents say will stifle industry growth. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) Author: Eric Glasser Updated: 2:55 PM EST January 29, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. In November, Florida voters approved Amendment 2, incrementally raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next 5 years.
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Top Dems formally introduce $15 federal minimum wage bill January 26, 2021 12:11 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
If the $15 minimum wage bill backed by Biden passes the entire nation will be covered by the new wage. Here people fight for that wage in Boston. | Steven Senne/AP
WASHINGTON Joined by a top “Fight for $15 and a union” campaigner, congressional Democrats formally introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. That would more than double the current minimum for adult workers, $7.25.