Sentence examples for wage pass from inspiring English sources
House Democrats were not far behind with a fundraising pitch pegged to bills blocked by the GOP, including efforts to raise the minimum wage, pass the ERA, tighten gun laws and ban discrimination against the LGBT community.
They also say Republicans will pay a price for stopping Democratic bills to restrict guns, raise the minimum wage, pass the federal Equal Rights Amendment, and ban anti-gay discrimination in housing and public employment.
When that's done, I hope we will also raise the minimum wage, pass a strong, enforceable patients' bill of rights, pass a juvenile justice bill that closes the gun-show loophole, hate crimes legislation and the new markets legislation, and make key investments in education, health care and the environment.
"That's why you see the minimum wage passing in states that are electing Republicans".
Initiatives raising the minimum wage passed in four states in 2016, including Arizona, which also voted for Trump.
Democrats and Republicans fail to find common ground on virtually anything — whether it's raising the minimum wage, passing immigration reform, or, of course, reforming health care.
Over her nearly four decades in the Legislature, Ms. Thompson, the longest-serving woman, black and Democrat in the House, has fought uphill battles to, as she says, "let the little dogs eat," repeatedly raising the minimum wage, passing Texas' first alimony law and, after a years-long battle, winning support for a hate-crimes bill to protect gay men and lesbians.
In 2014, popular referenda mandating a higher minimum wage passed in four red states.
Binding ballot initiatives that would raise the minimum wage passed by wide margins in four red states on Tuesday night.
Ballot initiatives to bypass lawmakers and increase the state minimum wage passed in Missouri and Arkansas, even as Republicans clobbered Democrats in those increasingly right-wing locales.
We saw the ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage passed even in Arkansas, and we see cities such as Seattle having a $15 minimum wage.
