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WEEL is a grassroots, economic and social justice organization. We are made up of people experiencing poverty and our supporters. Through advocacy, action, and education we work together to eradicate the myths, stereotypes, and stigmas that are harmful to low-income families.
Our priority is to ensure that those most affected by poverty are civically engaged and part of the democratic process from voting to policy creation and implementation.
Lawmakers, not weather, may freeze minimum wage
By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 01/28/09
The 2009 Legislature is taking up a bill today that would freeze Montana’s $6.90 minimum wage for waiters and waitresses like Conn. Any raise she would receive after $6.90 would come out of her tips.
And that, Conn said, is just wrong.
“If you think that people who make minimum wage live in this crazy black hole where (the cost) of everything never changes, I can tell you that’s dead wrong,” she said in an interview Tuesday.
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WEEL Thanks Senator Baucus for His Work on Behalf of Montana Children and Families
by: Layna George, Interim ED of WEEL
Layna George is the Interim Executive Director of Working for Equality and Economic Liberation.
Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL) has been deeply involved in issues of concern to low-income children and families in Montana for a decade. When President Bush's 2001 tax cuts were pushed through Congress, WEEL saw an opportunity to help children by working with Senator Baucus, who was chair of the Finance Committee, to make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable. Senator Baucus listened to our members, primarily low-income women in Montana, and other organizations, and he helped include the partially refunded CTC that we have now in the President's tax cut package. Building on that work, WEEL also brought Senator Baucus several poverty reduction proposals that came directly from our members and he was able to include them in the welfare bill that was passed out of the Finance Committee in 2002.
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