BY: Juliana Feliciano Reyes Out of the roughly $30,000 that Amos Troyah made last year as a dishwasher at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, $2,000 went toward…
POWEROctober 17, 2018
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced legislation on Wednesday to incrementally raise the minimum wage for city employees and contract workers to $15 by July 1,…
POWERSeptember 28, 2018
Philadelphia's mayor has proposed increasing the minimum wage for city workers and employees of city contractors to $15 an hour by July 2022. City workers…
POWERSeptember 27, 2018
BY: Michael D'Onofrio Mayor Jim Kenney aims to raise the minimum wage in phases for some workers in the city to $15 an hour by 2022.…
POWERSeptember 27, 2018
BY: Claire Sasko Mayor Jim Kenney is pushing to raise the minimum wage to $15 for city employees contractors. Kenney is scheduled to announce on Wednesday proposed…
POWERSeptember 27, 2018
BY: Juliana Feliciano Reyes Last month, 2,000 workers and labor leaders sporting brightly colored shirts and waving "Libertad y justicia para todos" signs marched through Old City…
POWERSeptember 11, 2018
BY: Juliana Feliciano Reyes In 2012, Onetha McKnight and her coworkers would vent about what seemed unfair about their jobs. Their biggest worry, said McKnight, who had…
POWERJune 12, 2018
BY: Julia Hatmaker Outrage over the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks continued on the evening of April 16. The two men had…
POWERMay 3, 2018
BY: Samaria Bailey Philadelphians Organized to Witness Empower and Rebuild (POWER) staged sit-ins at two separate Starbucks in Center City Monday evening, protesting what they called…
POWERMay 3, 2018