Responding to NYS Assembly Speaker Silver’s Call for a Minimum Wage of $8.50/hour, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center Calls for a Minimum Wage That Is a Living Wage!
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) agrees with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and other lawmakers in Albany that the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour cannot cover the basic needs of workers in New York. However, the minimum wage proposed by Speaker Silver, $8.50 an hour, is not enough of a change: it is time to [...]
Raise New York’s Minimum Wage
How much money does it take to live in Tompkins County, with its high rents, heating bills and gas prices? Could you live securely on NYS’s minimum wage, $7.25 an hour? A movement is growing across the state to raise that minimum wage; The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is part of that movement. Will you [...]
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