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...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Sept. 27, 2022— Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $10 to $11 an hour on Sept. 30 and business leaders across Florida are welcoming the raise, saying it will boost consumer spending and bolster local businesses. Florida’s...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Sept. 6, 2022 —Nebraska business owners said today’s Secretary of State announcement that the initiative to raise the minimum wage has qualified for the November ballot is good news. Business leaders say that gradually raising Nebraska’s minimum wage...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
July 20, 2022—With July 24 marking 13 years since the last federal minimum wage raise in 2009, business owners across the country are calling for the $7.25 federal minimum wage to be increased. This is the longest period...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
July 7, 2022 —Nebraska business owners spoke today about the importance of raising the state’s minimum wage as Raise the Wage Nebraska submitted signatures to the Secretary of State for the ballot initiative to gradually raise the state...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
June 29, 2022 — Business owners in Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Nevada and Oregon say the minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 will boost consumer buying power and strengthen local economies.
“With the federal minimum wage stuck at an abysmal...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
April 28, 2022—Today, New York business leaders joined Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, Assembly Labor Committee Chair Latoya Joyner, and community leaders in support of legislation to raise and index New York’s minimum wage so that it keeps up with...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Jan. 27, 2022—Today, Governor Tom Wolf and state legislators visited &pizza’s Willow Grove location for a press conference in support of raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage and a tour of the restaurant. Following remarks by Gov. Wolf, &pizza shop leader Kelly...