National and local research has shown that raising the minimum wage is good for the economy. Yet, despite an avalanche of calls from workers, clergy, enlightened businesspeople, mental health experts and doctors, Hawaii lawmakers let the minimum wage bill die…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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PLEASE CALL/EMAIL NOW: There is still time to raise the minimum wage for Hawaii’s struggling workers
GUEST POST BY GARY HOOSER This past Friday, the House was unable to get the approvals needed from their Finance Committee to pass the minimum wage bill out of the Conference Committee. Unless another committee meeting is scheduled tomorrow, April…
Tagged with: Fight for $15 Hawaii, Living Wage Hawaii, raise up Hawaii
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage
Poverty undermines children’s health: Hawaiʻi families need a living wage now.
You can help: please call the following members of the conference committee for SB789. Let them know you want them to pass a $15 minimum wage bill this year for ALL workers. REPRESENTATIVES Johanson (586-9470); Luke (586-6200), Cullen (586-8490) and…
Tagged with: Dr. Robert Pantell, Fight for $15 Hawaii, Living wage, raise up Hawaii
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Urgent: submit testimony to support a living wage in Hawaii. It’s easy. Promise!
Go to this super easy template from Living Wage Hawaii.Customize or submit as is. Lawmakers listen when people get noisy. https://www.livingwagehawaii.com/labor-testimony The commentary below is adapted from a call to action by Will Caron, Community Organizer Pālolo Neighborhood Board 808…
Tagged with: HB1191, Living wage, raise up Hawaii, SB1248, SB789, testimony
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Living wage, Uncategorized
Campaign to Raise Up Hawaii. Join us. Thurs Jan 10, 4.45p.m. Room 329, HI State Capitol
“Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society…
Dawn Morais 