The Winston-Salem City Council passed its $530 million budget with no tax increase on Monday, June 18, with a commitment to raise the minimum wage for city workers to $15 by 2021.
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By Algenon Cash, Guest Columnist Lawmakers have recently caught my attention with bills to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Representative Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat, submitted the
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has announced that he is stepping down as president of the N.C. NAACP in June and will not run for re-election. This sounds
BY CASH MICHAELS FOR THE CHRONICLE Forsyth legislative representatives are split on a bill that, if passed, would “increase the state’s minimum wage in phases” over a five-year period, “when
African-American community gains her attention. BY CASH MICHAELS FOR THE CHRONICLE RALEIGH — In an exclusive interview with North Carolina’s
By Mayeesa Mitchell For The Chronicle Among the 9,000 attendees at presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ rally at the Greensboro Coliseum
President Obama would like the national minimum wage to rise to $10.10 an hour. By executive order, he raised the
(pictured above: Dr. Rev. William Barber) Hats off to the N.C. NAACP! The Tar Heel branch of the venerable civil
(pictured above: Melissa Harris-Perry on the set of her MSNBC show.) U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has added her voice to the crescendo
A recently-released report, Out of Reach 2014, claims that many in the Triad can’t afford the area’s exalted rent prices.
