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Policing, health care, minimum wage top RI Black and Latino Caucus agenda
Providence Journal (RI)
The Rhode Island Legislative Black and
Latino Caucus unveiled its 2021 agenda on Friday, aimed at tackling housing discrimination and boosting health care access, police accountability and economic opportunity.
Lawmakers priorities include advancing a bill sponsored by Sen.
Ana Quezada, D-Providence, to raise the minimum wage from
$11.50 to
75-cent increase by 2022.
Quezada pointed to the lack of employees returning to the service industry as evidence that wages are too low.
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$15 minimum wage I hear in the news every day that they don t find workers . because they don t pay enough, and people are making more money getting unemployment than going back to work. That proves that this bill, it was the right time to do it.