web01.fireside.fm Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:35:26 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Wisconsin Watch - Episodes Tagged with “Minimum Wage” https://wisconsinwatch.fireside.fm/tags/minimum%20wage Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:00:00 -0400 The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that reports on government accountability and quality of life issues, like education, the economy and the environment. It’s more important to us to get the story right than it is to be first and we believe in collaborating, not competing, with other news outlets. Not only can you find our stories on WisconsinWatch.org, but we give all of our reports away for free to hundreds of other news organizations. We are excited to start sharing our reports in audio form and you can find them wherever you get your podcasts! en-us episodic From the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Wisconsin Watch The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that reports on government accountability and quality of life issues, like education, the economy and the environment. It’s more important to us to get the story right than it is to be first and we believe in collaborating, not competing, with other news outlets. Not only can you find our stories on WisconsinWatch.org, but we give all of our reports away for free to hundreds of other news organizations. We are excited to start sharing our reports in audio form and you can find them wherever you get your podcasts! no Wisconsin, news, investigative Wisconsin Watch info@wisconsinwatch.org Raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage would significantly cut poverty. So why is it still $7.25? https://wisconsinwatch.fireside.fm/minimum-wage 524a0221-24ed-4a1f-957b-d3ce203ca3a6 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:00:00 -0400 Wisconsin Watch full Wisconsin Watch Thousands of residents in Wisconsin — many of them people of color — would see a higher standard of living if politicians raised the long-stalled minimum wage. 16:32 no Workers like Olivia McKnight, a full-time Popeyes employee and mother of three, often struggle to get by even on wages above the federal minimum of $7.25, and those low-wage workers are disproportionately people of color. In Wisconsin, where the racial wealth and income gaps are some of the greatest in the nation, many feel raising the minimum is long overdue. Now, Democrats in the state are proposing a hike to $15 per hour for minimum wage workers, but face daunting political opposition from business interests and their Republican colleagues. Reporting by Molly Davis and Gretchen Gerlach. Originally published July 20th, 2021. Wisconsin, minimum wage, labor, poverty Workers like Olivia McKnight, a full-time Popeyes employee and mother of three, often struggle to get by even on wages above the federal minimum of $7.25, and those low-wage workers are disproportionately people of color. In Wisconsin, where the racial wealth and income gaps are some of the greatest in the nation, many feel raising the minimum is long overdue. Now, Democrats in the state are proposing a hike to $15 per hour for minimum wage workers, but face daunting political opposition from business interests and their Republican colleagues.

Reporting by Molly Davis and Gretchen Gerlach. Originally published July 20th, 2021.

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Reporting by Molly Davis and Gretchen Gerlach. Originally published July 20th, 2021.

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