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Illinois Adopts $15 Minimum Wage

HeadlineFeb 20, 2019

Illinois became the latest state to adopt the call for a $15 minimum wage, when Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday to reach that goal by 2025. Workers celebrated the news after a years-long campaign for fair wages in the state. This is fast-food worker and a member of the group Fight for 15, Ieshia Townsend, speaking at the bill signing.

Ieshia Townsend: “Before the Fight for 15 union movement, I felt voiceless. All around me was overwhelming messages that I didn’t matter as a fast-food worker, as a single mom—that I didn’t even matter as a black woman.”

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