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The Fight for $15 is a nationwide labor movement that advocates for a higher ($15-an-hour) minimum wage.
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Fight for $15 Term Timeline in The Sum of Us
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Chapter 5: No One Fights Alone
...a $15-an-hour wage. (Policy advocates, including Demos, were pushing for $10.10 at best.) The “ Fight for $15 ” movement spread fast around the U.S., across a wide variety of industries, and in...
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...fast food for two decades, struggling to keep up with stagnant wages. He joined the Fight for $15 campaign in 2012 by cofounding the local group Stand Up KC. He immediately won safety...
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...did this by focusing on how management’s racist, zero-sum story was dividing them all. The Fight for $15 campaign has substantially improved wages for the lowest-paid Americans for the first time in two...
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Chapter 10: The Solidarity Dividend
...they can come together by empathizing across racial lines (like Bridget Hughes, who joined the Fight for $15 after empathizing with a Latina woman who also worked in fast food).
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