Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Dec. 27, 2021—Twenty-one states are ringing in the new year with minimum wage increases. Another four states and the District of Columbia have raises scheduled later in 2022. Business owners across the country are speaking in support of...
Contact: Erin Musgrave
erin@emccommunications.com, 530-864-7014
Nov. 1, 2021—Today, Brian England, owner of BA Auto Care in Columbia, and Alissa Barron-Menza, vice president of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, join Howard County Councilmembers Opel Jones and Christiana Rigby, and community leaders, at a press...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
September 29, 2021—Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $8.65 to $10 per hour on Sept. 30 as the first step under the $15 ballot initiative Amendment 2, which Florida voters resoundingly passed last fall. Business owners across Florida...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
July 20, 2021—Business owners across the country are calling for the $7.25 federal minimum wage to be increased, as July 24 marks 12 years since the last federal minimum wage raise in 2009. This is the longest period without...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
July 19, 2021—Today, business owners in attendance and throughout Delaware applaud as Gov. John Carney signs Senate Bill 15, raising Delaware’s minimum wage from $9.25 currently to $15 by 2025, and making Delaware the 10th state to enact a...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
June 29, 2021 — Business owners in Washington, D.C., Nevada and Oregon say the minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 will boost consumer spending, benefit their businesses, strengthen workforces and help build a stronger economic recovery.
“These July 1...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
June 17, 2021—Today, Delaware business owners applaud the House of Representatives for passing Senate Bill 15 to raise the state minimum wage to $15 by 2025 and urge Gov. John Carney to quickly sign it into law. Business leaders say...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
May 26, 2021—Today, Lancaster business owners joined Governor Wolf in calling on state lawmakers to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage. Peter Barber, CEO of Two Dudes Painting Company, a residential and commercial painting company, and Jennie Groff, CEO of Stroopies, Inc., a stroopwafel maker and retailer, joined Gov. Tom Wolf, Reps. Patty Kim and P. Michael Sturla, and other advocates at a press conference in support of raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $15 by 2027.
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
April 28, 2021—Virginia’s minimum wage will increase to $9.50 on May 1, the first step in the raise signed into law last year. Business leaders around the state are welcoming the raise, saying it will increase consumer spending, strengthen Virginia’s workforce...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
March 8, 2021—Today, Courtney Sunborn, owner of a residential and commercial cleaning service in Lewes, Del., and Alissa Barron-Menza, Vice President of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, joined Sen. Jack Walsh, Rep. Gerald Brady, and community advocates at...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage releases new business sign-on statement with nearly 500 inaugural signers – from Ben & Jerry’s, &pizza, Room & Board, Stonyfield, Beauty & Beyond, Legacy Vacation Resorts, A Few Cool Hardware Stores, the U.S...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Midwest business owner joins House and Senate leaders today to introduce the Raise the Wage Act; business leaders across the country also voice support for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025
Jan. 26, 2021— Mike Draper, owner of Raygun LLC, a clothing, home goods and printing company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, joins House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03), incoming Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL-07) on a press call today in support of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021.
Contact: Erin Musgrave
erin@emccommunications.com, 530-864-7014
Dec. 28, 2020—Twenty states will be raising their minimum wage to start the new year. Another four states have increases scheduled later in 2021. Business leaders across the country say minimum wage increases will boost consumer spending, strengthen local workforces and...
Contact: Cat Ulrich
cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
Florida Business for a Fair Minimum Wage coalition supported nation’s first passage of $15 minimum wage by ballot initiative
Nov. 3, 2020, Miami — Business owners across Florida are celebrating the passage of Amendment 2, saying raising the minimum wage will boost consumer spending, strengthen Florida’s workforce and help the economy. Amendment 2 will gradually raise the state minimum wage, starting in Sept. 2021, to $15 by 2026.
CONTACT: Cat Ulrich, cat@emccommunications.com, (202) 630-7839
With polls closing today, business owners across Florida are available to talk about why they support raising the state minimum wage
Nov. 3, 2020 — This Election Day, business leaders in the growing Florida Business for a Fair...