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Tag: Minimum Wage

Posted inEconomic Justice, Living Wage, Poverty, Workers

Living Wage Week: Code Crew sets up students—and workers—for success

by Melonee Gaines March 9, 2018June 2, 2022
Posted inLiving Wage, Workers

Living Wage Week: Nonprofit bakery to experiment with living wage

by Martha Park March 6, 2018June 2, 2022
Posted inEconomic Justice

The New Poor People’s Campaign is alive and well—and thriving in Memphis

by Kevin McKenzie and Wendi C. Thomas February 13, 2018March 15, 2023
Posted inLiving Wage, Martin Luther King, Sanitation Workers, Workers

Workers join historic Clayborn Temple-City Hall route to demand fair pay, unions

by Micaela Watts February 12, 2018June 2, 2022
Posted inEconomic Justice, Living Wage, Sanitation Workers, Workers

Fast-food workers across Mid-South to strike on anniversary of ’68 strike

by Wendi C. Thomas February 1, 2018June 2, 2022
Posted inPoverty

Everything you wanted to know about a living wage but didn’t know whom to ask

by Wendi C. Thomas January 25, 2018June 2, 2022
Posted inLiving Wage

For Code Crew founders, paying a living wage is the right thing to do

by Melonee Gaines November 28, 2017May 5, 2021
Posted inEconomic Justice

CHOICES chooses a $15/hour living wage

by Martha Park October 5, 2017May 4, 2021
Posted inLiving Wage, Poverty, Workers

Census: 2016 poverty rates rise for blacks, fall for whites and Latinos in Memphis

by Wendi C. Thomas September 14, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inDemocracy, Economic Justice, Workers

Nonprofit Bakery to Experiment with a Living Wage

by Martha Park September 4, 2017June 2, 2022

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