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Raises From Coast to Coast in 2023

64 Cities, Counties, and States Will Raise Minimum Wages on January 1st—Many Reaching or Exceeding $15—With 27 Additional Jurisdictions Lifting Pay Later in 2023

Ten-Year Legacy of the Fight for $15 and a Union Movement

Ten years ago, on November 29, 2012, a group of 200 fast-food workers in New York City—fed up with low pay and roadblocks to organizing—walked out of their jobs demanding a $15 hourly wage and a union. To commemorate the landmark 10-year anniversary of the Fight for $15, this report analyzes the movement’s impact beyond wages.

Testimony of Yannet Lathrop on Maryland HB 698

NELP supports HB 698, which would accelerate the timeline for increasing Maryland’s minimum wage to $15/hr by 2022-2023, and would remove the provision in current minimum wage law that allows the Board of Public Works to suspend wage increases.

Testimony of Yannet Lathrop on Maryland SB 721

NELP supports SB 721, which would accelerate the timeline for increasing Maryland’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022-2023, and would remove the provision in current minimum wage law that allows the Board of Public Works to suspend wage increases.

Raises From Coast to Coast in 2022

Workers’ Wages Will Increase in 56 Cities, Counties, and States on January 1—Many Reaching or Surpassing $15 an Hour—With Another 25 Jurisdictions Set to Raise Pay Later in the Year.