When some fast-food workers in New York went on strike one morning in 2012, they had no idea it was the beginning of a movement that would gain national momentum and propel demonstrations in more than 200 cities.
Economists including Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell have acknowledged that higher minimum-wage laws on the state and local level played a role: Pay grew faster in places that raised their minimums, Powell"But really it's much broader than that," he added."A bigger factor really just is very low unemployment and a strong labor market, high job creation, that's the main driver.
But the marches haven't stopped. That's because for all the states that did raise their pay minimums, many didn't. Neither did Congress. The campaign did not spur a surge of unionizing. The value of $15 is worth less and less every year. Workers say they still join the campaign to push for the right to unionize, to get collective bargaining for better pay and benefits.
Health aide Thomas says she lives"a promise-to-pay to promise-to-pay" life, by covering what she can when bill collectors call about her cellphone or car insurance payments.
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