Sentences with phrase «support minimum wage laws»

There are countless people who understand all this and yet strongly support minimum wage laws, either because the laws mesh with their political beliefs or because they personally benefit from the laws.

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The results show that while a change in federal, state, or local laws would have these folks reaching into their pockets, a majority still support a minimum wage hike.

The parable has been cited in support of minimum wage laws and unemployment compensation.

Dorancy supports compulsory Universal pre-K, the DREAM Act, raising the minimum wage and rent control laws.

The Union also supports the Wage Theft Prevention Act, a bill that ensures employees are paid the minimum wage and overtime according to Wage Theft Prevention Act, a bill that ensures employees are paid the minimum wage and overtime according to wage and overtime according to law.

The first is that Cuomo has made himself the first major elected New York state official to advocate the $ 15 minimum wage and the plan he supports is comparable to those passed into law in Seattle and Los Angeles and proposed in ballot initiatives in Washington, D.C. and California.

# 2 — The conservative upheaval finds little support in public opinion — Public opinion remains generally in favor of more investment in public education, a higher minimum wage, stronger gun laws, reproductive freedom, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, tougher environmental protection laws and opposed to school vouchers, tax cuts for millionaires and weaker consumer protection laws.

In recent years, a wave of preemption laws crafted by ALEC with the support of retailers, fast food companies and other major employers, have been implemented in states across the country to block increases in the minimum wage and efforts to enact paid sick days.