Des Moines’ minimum wage is higher than you think, By Kevin Hardy, June 14, 2016, Des Moines Register: “S. Ahmed Merchant isn’t too worried about Polk County possibly raising the minimum wage above Iowa’s mandated $7.25 an hour. By December, he plans to pay every employee at his 40 Iowa Jimmy John’s sandwich shops at least $10.50 per hour. Merchant started raising workers’ beginning pay after Johnson County supervisors decided last year to phase in a new minimum wage of $10.10 per hour…”
Day: June 15, 2016
Infant Mortality – Milwaukee, WI
As racial gap widens, infant mortality rate goal virtually beyond reach, By Crocker Stephenson, June 14, 2016, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “African-American babies are dying in Milwaukee at a rate that is more than three times that of white babies, according to data released Tuesday by the Milwaukee Health Department. Approaching historic levels, it is the worst racial disparity in infant deaths that the city has seen in more than a decade. And while the average infant mortality rate for both black and white babies decreased during the three-year period ending in 2015, it now appears all but impossible that the city will reach the goal it set in 2011 of reducing the black infant mortality rate 15% by 2017…”