Ben Werschkul
Yahoo Finance, Dec 27, 2019
Twenty-one states are increasing their minimum wage for the new year with workers from Arizona to Vermont set to see an increase.
As Keith Mestrich, CEO of Amalgamated Bank and a fan of the wage hike noted on Yahoo Finance’s YFi PM, “It's going to be a really happy holiday for a lot of people around the country.” ...
As Amalgamated Bank’s Mestrich says, “The economy's been on fire now for a very, very long time. But many of the rewards have really gone to the people at the top of the ladder, not to the people at the bottom.”