Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
July 18, 2024—July 24 will mark fifteen years since the last federal minimum wage increase in 2009. This is the longest period by far without a raise since the minimum wage was enacted in 1938. The...
CONTACT: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
May 1, 2024 — Missouri business owners are speaking today about the importance of raising the state minimum wage and providing paid sick leave as Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages submits signatures to qualify the ballot initiative...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, 601-832-6079
Dec. 14, 2023—Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage to ring in the new year. Another three states and the District of Columbia have increases scheduled later in 2024. Business owners across the country are welcoming the increases, saying they...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Sept. 26, 2023—Business owners from across Massachusetts support increasing the state minimum wage. Business leaders are testifying at the Massachusetts State House before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of legislation that would gradually...
Contact: Lena Rueck
lena@emccommunications.com, (801) 822-7990
Sept. 21, 2023—Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $11 to $12 an hour on Sept. 30 and business leaders across Florida are welcoming the raise, saying it will boost consumer spending, bolster local businesses and strengthen the economy...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com or (601) 832-6079
July 25, 2023—Business owners around the country are speaking up in support of new legislation introduced in Congress today, the Raise the Wage Act of 2023, to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2028...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
June 22, 2023 — Business owners say that minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere will boost consumer spending and benefit their businesses and local economies.
July 1 increases include:
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
June 20, 2023 — Pennsylvania business owners are applauding House passage of legislation to increase the state’s long stagnant minimum wage (HB 1500) and urge the Senate to advance the raise. Business leaders say that a...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
April 11, 2023—Maryland business leaders will join Gov. Wes Moore as he signs the Fair Wage Act, accelerating the increase in the state minimum wage rate for all employers to $15 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2024. Business owners...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
March 27, 2023—As New York lawmakers move closer to enacting a minimum wage increase through the state budget, due by April 1, a large and growing coalition of hundreds of businesses and business organizations is supporting raising and then indexing the state minimum wage.
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Feb. 28, 2023—A new and growing coalition of hundreds of businesses and business organizations across New York – from retailers, restaurants and other small businesses to farms, manufacturers and the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Feb. 27, 2023—Today, business owners will testify before the Maryland House Economic Matters Committee at 1 pm ET in support of the Fair Wage Act of 2023, and join Gov. Wes Moore at a noon roundtable in favor...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com; 601-832-6079
Dec. 22, 2022 — Twenty-three states are raising their minimum wage to ring in the new year. Four more states and D.C. have increases scheduled later in 2023. Business owners across the country are welcoming the increases, saying they will...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Nov. 8, 2022— Nebraska business owners are celebrating the passage of Initiative 433, saying raising the minimum wage will boost consumer spending, strengthen Nebraska’s workforce, and bolster local businesses. Initiative 433 will gradually raise the state minimum wage...
Contact: Blake Case
blake@emccommunications.com, (601) 832-6079
Oct. 13, 2022 —A coalition of nearly 300 Nebraska business owners and executives across the state released a statement today supporting ballot Initiative 433, which would gradually raise Nebraska’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.
In the words...