- Higher minimum-wage proposals gain ground on both coasts, By Lisa Leff and David Klepper (AP), July 23, 2015, ABC News: “The push for a higher minimum wage gained momentum on both sides of the country, with New York embracing an eventual $15 an hour for the state’s 200,000 fast-food workers and the huge University of California system announcing the same raise for its employees…”
- California, New York and Washington, D.C., make moves on minimum wage, By Sam Sanders, July 22, 2015, National Public Radio: “A wave of wage increases in cities across the country, as well as at several major businesses, continued on Wednesday. University of California President Janet Napolitano announced that the minimum wage for direct and contract employees in the U.C. system working 20 hours or more per week will be raised to $15 an hour over the next three years. The first hike will be to $13 an hour on Oct. 1, 2015. The minimum wage will then jump to $14 a year later, and hit $15 an hour on Oct. 1, 2017…”
Tag: Washington DC
Homeless Shelter Shortage – Washington, D.C.
D.C. seeks motels to house families this winter amid expected homeless surge, By Robert Samuels, November 5, 2014, Washington Post: “D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s administration has been seeking out motels that could be used this winter as makeshift emergency family shelters in an effort to handle the expected surge in homeless families, according to internal documents and interviews with city officials. Securing the facilities could help prevent a repeat of the pratfalls that occurred last winter, when officials said they had no alternative to placing families in Maryland motels and city recreation centers, until a judge ruled that the latter is illegal. At that point, the shelter at the dilapidated, old D.C. General Hospital had filled to the brim, and city motels were booked up…”
DC Promise Neighborhood
Tackling poverty: DC community tries new approach: By Kimberly Hefling, May 24, 2014, Washington Post: “The corner Safeway is long gone, closed after looting following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Some residents have no choice but to buy groceries from an old ice-cream truck. Others rely on men known as “riders” who transport shoppers for a few bucks. Occasional gunshots ring out even as the days of out-of-state drivers lining the streets to buy drugs are largely over. Young children are everywhere except during school hours, when many are scattered far from home at 150 schools around the nation’s capital because of a long history of subpar education in the neighborhood. . .”