There’s no way to survive in NJ making less than $9 an hour
Raising the minimum wage will have a much-needed positive effect on the state's economy. Let's make it happen.
Raising the minimum wage will have a much-needed positive effect on the state's economy. Let's make it happen.
U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross on Wednesday joined representatives from Rutgers University–Camden in expressing support for students and others protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
America’s families are experiencing a long-term decline in their economic security. It’s a real national crisis and we need to make it our business to fix it. If not us, who? If not now, when? Let’s make raising wages our top priority and let’s do it now.
Most working class people don’t even understand that that’s going on in Washington, so they’re willing to vote against their own personal interest in many cases,” Mr. Paylor said. The Democratic Party and its elected officials, he added, need to do a better job of communicating, and “to identify themselves that they are representative of the working class.
... if Mr. Norcross has his way, maybe a few more working class candidates will appear on the ballot.
It’s up to workers, the same people whose voices fueled the public outcry over health-care cuts, to call their state and federal legislators and tell them it’s time for a raise.