DL Open Thread Wednesday May 19th 2021 (All Delaware)
Press Conference in support of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour
The coalition supports legislation being introduced by Senator Jack Walsh that would gradually increase Delaware’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. According to the Economic Policy Institute, increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would raise pay for 82% of all Delaware workers currently in poverty. Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of impacted workers are not teenagers working part-time jobs. Half of the affected workforce are working full-time jobs. 86 percent of the workers are over the age of 20, and 63 percent are 25 years or older. Nearly 6 in 10 low wage workers are women and one-quarter of workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage are supporting children.
The event will be hosted by Daisy Cruz, District Leader of SEIU 32BJ, and speakers include State Senator and sponsor of the legislation, Jack Walsh, Jim Maravelias, President of the AFL CIO, and Ravi Goel, Managing Partner and Cofounder of Even & Odd Minds in Wilmington among others.
Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcode-trz0pHt0-v3lPU_yoH_UnbVrtPE6a Today – 11 AM
That piece on Delaware as an Incorporation Paradise is a must-read for those unfamiliar with the whole sordid and lucrative enterprise.
Doesn’t fit in an All-Delaware edition, but progressive Philly DA skunked his cop-supported opponent in yesterday’s primary:
https://www.phillyvoice.com/2021-primary-philly-district-attorney-krasner-vega-democrats-winner/
I guess the coveted Ed Rendell endorsement ain’t what it used to be, either.
Oh no! Could he lose that lucrative Comcast/NBC lobbying gig?
Once he’s dead, maybe. Even then, as with every conservative and most neoliberal Dems, cable TV shows with time to fill will exhume him.
Rick Santorum, a two-term senator who crashed and burned on the national stage 13 years ago is still being trotted out there by CNN.