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Restaurant workers depend largely on tips. They don’t get a full minimum wage. A bill in Springfield would change that.
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Democrats have vowed to continue pushing to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. Illinois already has beat them to the punch, but the federal proposal…
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When a new year begins in Illinois, there typically are dozens if not hundreds of new laws going into effect.Not this year. Like so many other things in…
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This month over a million Illinois workers who make the minimum wage got a pay increase, with another raise coming July 1. It was Illinois’ first…
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Illinois State University union workers are 13 months in without new contracts. An AFSCME staff representative said it’s time for the university to nix…
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Illinois State University union employees rallied Wednesday to garner support amidst contract negotiations.The contracts expired last June and…
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The director of a local early childhood education program says she’s concerned that the state’s increasing minimum wage could have unintended consequences…
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a measure gradually hiking the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, the highest in the Midwest.It was one of the new…
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Illinois could soon be the fifth state on the path to a $15 minimum wage.With the measure sitting on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk, the governor is expected to…
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Young adulthood is often carved up into milestones—your first job, car, house, or child.For Tre Whitelow of Bloomington, it was a much smaller achievement…