‘The success is inspirational’: the Fight for $15 movement 10 years on

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Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goalsTen years ago next week, 200 fast-food workers walked out at 20 New York City restaurants, demanding $15 an hour in pay. At the time, many observers scoffed at $15 as an absurd, pie-in-the-sky demand. As the movement’s anniversary approaches, the Fight for $15 movement has proven the naysayers wrong.Congress has failed to increase the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. But across the country, states and companies have raise ...

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