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Senator Haywood Talks About A Raise In Minimum Wage

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, September 27, 2019

By Alex Lloyd Gross On January 22 2019 Senator Art Haywood participated in a rally to raise the state minimum wage outside a McDonalds restaurant at 29 E Chelten Ave. It was 10 degrees outside and over 200 people showed up for a rally. He was back at the same McDonalds today, September 27, 2019…

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Paid lobbyist trying to fight against minimum wage hike

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, December 19, 2017

By Alex Lloyd Gross The Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 per hour. It has been frozen at this rate for almost 10 years. When grass roots efforts started to ask for a $15.00 minimum wage, people scoffed at them. “$15.00 to flip burgers and get the order wrong”? That seemed to be a popular sentiment….