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	"author_name": "Progressive Mass ",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/progressive-mass",
	"title": "It&#x27;s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage Again",
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	"description": "From 2013 to 2018, Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of faith, labor, and community groups, worked to bring the statewide minimum wage closer to a living wage, and given the stagnation of the federal minimum wage, our $15 is something to be proud of. But it&#x27;s still not a living wage. And given the rising costs of health care, housing, child care, and basic goods, it doesn&#x27;t stretch as far as it did in June of 2018. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s time to raise the minimum wage again. New legislation, filed earlier this year by Sen. Jason Lewis and Reps. Tram Nguyen and Dan Donahue would raise the minimum wage to $20 and index it to inflation so that it doesn&#x27;t lose value over time. And it would include municipal employees, who were left out of the last minimum wage increase. Can you urge the Joint Committee on Labor &amp;amp; Workforce Development to advance these bills?",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/min-wage-testimony-2023"
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