Watch Rep. Mary Helen Roberts respond to a constituent email about increasing the minimum wage, House Bill 2672.
ASK MARY HELEN 2: Minimum Wage
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Driving-decrease programs saluted in WashPIRG report
Like many other schools around the country, Washington’s colleges and universities are working to cut student-driving to, from, and around campus. Innovative transportation programs advanced in many Washington higher-education institutions…
Joel Connelly post on the Reproductive Parity Act
Seattle PI writer Joel Connelly posted a great piece on the Reproductive Parity Act, which the House voted to approve yesterday. Rep. Gael Tarleton, D-Seattle, laid out the Reproductive Parity…
Education – a springboard to success
The US imprisons over 2.4 million people. According to a Pew study published in 2011, between 1973 and 2009, the nation’s prison population grew by 705%. We now imprison more…
Raising the minimum wage is not just a “progressive” issue
The minimum wage was born in Washington state back in 1937, when the U.S. Supreme Court uphold our state’s right to set a bare minimum on wages.Today, many citizens and…