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Access and equity are top priorities for Women’s Health Caucus in 2023-24 session
With operating rules now in place in the Democratically controlled House, caucus members said that they plan to prioritize reproductive rights, address the maternal mortality crisis, and expand access and equity in health care.
‘Not one more’: Labor leaders, state officials call for enhanced workplace safety standards
Labor leaders and state officials gathered in Harrisburg on Monday to remember workers who have lost their lives on the job, and to call on the General Assembly to approve two pieces of legislation that would extend federal workplace safety protections to public-sector employees across the commonwealth.
At Christmas, Wolf, allies call on Legislature to hike minimum wage | Thursday Morning Coffee
(A scheduling note: This newsletter will be off until 1/3/2022 for a holiday break. From all of us at the Capital-Star, our best wishes for a happy holiday and peaceful New Year.) Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With more than two-dozen states set to hike their minimum wage in 2022, the Democratic Wolf administration is urging the […]
Amid inflation and staffing shortages, is now the time for Pa.’s minimum wage to increase?
Despite years of lobbying by low-wage workers and their advocates, Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has stalled at the federal level, $7.25 an hour, for over a decade. But with a faltering economic recovery caused by the surge of COVID-19 delta variant cases, ongoing labor shortages across Pennsylvania and troubling signs of inflation, is now finally the […]
Denied for now in D.C., advocates keep up the fight for $15 in Harrisburg | Tuesday Morning Coffee
New polling data from a progressive nonprofit shows majority support for a wage hike in the Keystone State
NAACP virtual town hall: Local, state and federal leaders say communities of color need more assistance
The town hall was the third in a four-part series that the NAACP Pa. organized to discuss COVID-19’s impact on communities of color.