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- AFL-CIO Now blog: ‘America Has Spoken: No One Who Works Should Live in Poverty’.
- AFL-CIO Now blog: Boosting Minimum Wage Is a Good Test of Republican Bipartisanship.
- : On Aug. 3, activists in the AFL-CIO's America Needs a Raise campaign turned in more than 130,000 voter signatures to the Colorado secretary of state to add a measure to increase the minimum wage to this fall's ballot.
- : Senate Democrats block an attempt by Republican congressional leaders to tie an estate tax cut for the very rich to a minimum wage increase.
- Low-Wage Workers Win Higher Wage in Massachusetts: State House and Senate unanimously override Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) veto.
- House Republicans Poison Minimum Wage Increase: House Republican leaders poisoned the chance for millions of minimum wage workers to receive their first pay raise in a decade.
- : On July 21, Gov. Mitt Romney (R) rejected a minimum wage bill that won unanimous approval from the Massachusetts Legislature.
- Victories in Pennsylvania, North Carolina: Minimum wage workers in Pennsylvania and North Carolina will get a raise as a result of the hard work of union and community activists who mobilized to move lawmakers to action.
- : North Carolina Workers Get a Minimum Wage Boost—How About Massachusetts?
- : White House Staff Get a Raise; Minimum Wage Workers Don't.
- Federal Update: House Republican honchos may not have seen the light regarding a raise in the minimum wage—but it looks like they are feeling the heat of public opinion.
- State Minimum Wage Roundup: Updates from Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and more.
- Arizona Update: On June 26, the submitted a petition with more than 200,000 signatures to put a minimum wage hike initiative on the November ballot in their state.
- Montana Update: On June 23, the "Raise Montana" coalition announced it had collected the more than 22,000 signatures needed for the measure to qualify for the ballot.
- : In a mostly party-line vote, the Senate refused to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
- : On June 13, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved a Labor Department spending bill after attaching an amendment that would raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour by Jan. 1, 2009.
- In an attempt to head off minimum wage legislation in California's state House, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) has proposed a $1 raise in the state's minimum wage.
- A measure to raise Missouri's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour has a place on this fall's ballot, thanks to a broad coalition led by the AFL-CIO in the state.
- Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) have introduced legislation (S. 1062 and H.R. 2429) to raise the minimum wage by $2.10 in three steps over 26 months.
- Read the latest AFL-CIO Now blog posts on the minimum wage.
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