Raising the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour

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Newt
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Raising the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour

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In the progressive west, states plan to up the minimum wage to $15.00

Meanwhile Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bancorp unveil minimum wage hikes after tax bill passage
Fifth Third and AT&T are paying employees special bonuses after getting tax cuts under the Republican tax plan.
Wells Fargo said Wednesday that it would boost minimum wages for employees to $15 an hour, following Fifth Third's similar announcement.

Amazing, this from CNBC. Maybe they have awakened and quit spewing fake news.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/fifth-t ... ssage.html

https://www.cnbc.com/.../this-is-just-t ... ding.html1 day ago - AT&T, Comcast and a handful of companies said they would use tax reform to give money to their employees and increase capital spending. Wells Fargo and Fifth Third said they would raise their minimum wage. Analysts expect other banks to follow, as well as other companies that will get a boost from the ...


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/... ... .htm...Apr 2, 2015 - It's been six years since Congress raised the federal minimum wage, which stands at a paltry $7.25 an hour. While Congress continues to stall proposals to raise wages for the nation's poorest, some companies have taken it upon themselves to boost pay. McDonald's was the latest company to join the trend ...

AT&T, Boeing, others promise bonuses, pay raises once tax bill signed
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 971199001/
1 day ago - Some companies promise workers pay raise and one-time bonus once Trump signs tax bill into law. ... Fifth Third Bancorp, a regional bank based in Cincinnati, said it will raise the minimum wage for all of its nearly 3,000 hourly employees to $15, and would distribute a one-time bonus of $1,000 for more ...
Top 8 Companies Raising the Minimum Wage (MCD, SBUX ...
https://www.investopedia.com/.../top-8- ... e-mcd-sbux....
Aug 14, 2016 - California, Washington and Minnesota have the highest minimum wage of $10 per hour, as of the start of 2016. New York, Oregon and California intend to bump their minimum wage rates by 2022. In the meantime, a slew of companies have cut to the chase and gratified their workers by hiking their own ...

How are the dims going to campaign against that.

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