
Should We Change The Minimum Wage to a Living Wage?
Season 2017 Episode 8 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Should We Change The Minimum Wage to a Living Wage?
Despite taking Hawai‘i’s minimum wage up to $9.25 an hour – and a scheduled increase to $10.10 effective next year – Hawai‘i’s minimum wage workers are faced with an impossible challenge: the biggest gap nationally between a state’s minimum hourly wage and the most basic earnings required to meet the local cost of living. Should we change the minimum wage to a living wage?
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Should We Change The Minimum Wage to a Living Wage?
Season 2017 Episode 8 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Despite taking Hawai‘i’s minimum wage up to $9.25 an hour – and a scheduled increase to $10.10 effective next year – Hawai‘i’s minimum wage workers are faced with an impossible challenge: the biggest gap nationally between a state’s minimum hourly wage and the most basic earnings required to meet the local cost of living. Should we change the minimum wage to a living wage?
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