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Raising the D.C. minimum wage to $15 by 2020 would lift wages for 114,000 working people
 A proposed ballot initiative would gradually raise Washington DC's minimum wage to $15 by mid-2020. It would also help tipped workers, such as waiters and bartenders, eventually get paid the full minimum wage, instead of the $2.77 subminimum wage. This proposal would raise wages for 114,000 working people-about 14 percent of all D.C. workers, and over one-fifth of D.C. private-sector workers. Once the minimum wage reaches $15, the average affected worker would earn roughly $2,900 more each year than he or she does now. The is not the stereotype of low-wage workers being teenagers working to earn spending money. The ones who would benefit are overwhelmingly adult workers, and are supporting families of their own. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Dennis Henigan, "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Special Report from Nice, France:
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- Jan Frel, Alternet
- Crystal Wright, Con Job: How the Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division/Conservative Black Chick/RT America
Conversations with Great Minds:
- Dennis Henigan, "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control/(former) Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence |
Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour Two: Bin Laden goaded the US into war against Islam - now Trump is declaring it... TV: " GPS" by Fareed Zakaria.
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