Fighting for a living wage in Hawaiʻi

Wages & Labor

Mar 8

Today, workers in Hawaiʻi are rallying at their State Capitol to raise the state’s minimum wage for the first time since 2018. Christy MacPherson, the Lead Community Developer at the Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice, joins Crooked Media’s “What a Day” podcast to discuss how workers are being affected by low wages in the highest cost-of-living state in the nation.

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