- Minimum wage must increase, Iowa panelists say, By Victor Epstein, June 5, 2013, Des Moines Register: “Romain Turner has been out of prison for five months and has run up a $1,800 tab for rent at the halfway house on the former grounds of Fort Des Moines while looking for work. The 33-year-old Des Moines native said he wants to live a law-abiding life after a criminal history that includes a burglary conviction two years ago. He is trying to figure out how he’s going to pay that new debt off, along with $300 in court fees, $2,000 in victim restitution, child support and rent once he lands a minimum-wage job…”
- Mass. will consider minimum wage hike, By Meghan E. Irons, June 11, 2013, Boston Globe: “Massachusetts legislators are considering a substantial increase in the state minimum wage for the first time in four years, setting up a showdown between advocates backing low-wage earners and business activists, both still struggling from the slow economy…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty