Wisconsinites push for minimum wage increase
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MADISON, Wis. - For 26-year-old Olivia McKnight, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would transform her life.
As a full-time Popeyes employee in Milwaukee, McKnight makes $10 an hour. This isn’t nearly enough to support herself and her three children. She also works a second job. The long work hours have forced her to miss out on time spent with her children, including holidays and key life moments.
For 29-year-old James Rudd, who earns more than $15 an hour now, he is finally able to pay for the things he needs. And he now fights for all workers in Wisconsin to reach at least $15 an hour.
Wisconsin residents push for an increase in minimum wage
MOLLY DAVIS and GRETCHEN GERLACH of Wisconsin Watch
July 24, 2021
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1of3James Rudd is seen outside of his workplace at the AT&T building in downtown Milwaukee, where he works as a janitor, on July 13, 2021. Rudd is fighting to double the minimum wage in Wisconsin from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. Rudd says he now makes more than $15 an hour and thinks everyone should make at least that. Fifteen dollars is just a start. We want to take vacations. We want to be able to live the American dream, he says. (Isaac Wasserman/Wisconsin Watch via AP)Isaac Wasserman/APShow MoreShow Less
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Raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage would significantly cut poverty. So why is it still $7.25?
Thousands of residents in Wisconsin many of them people of color would see a higher standard of living if politicians raised the long-stalled minimum wage.
July 20, 2021 12:01 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
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James Rudd is seen outside of his workplace at the AT&T building in downtown Milwaukee, where he works as a janitor, on July 13, 2021. Rudd is fighting to double the minimum wage in Wisconsin from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. Rudd says he now makes more than $15 an hour and thinks everyone should make at least that. “Fifteen dollars is just a start. We want to take vacations. We want to be able to live the American dream,” he says. (Isaac Wasserman / Wisconsin Watch)
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