The primary premise of the stimulus bill, otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was to keep workers working and to put earned income in their pockets.
One of the tools to ensure the lion’s share of Vermont’s stimulus proceeds doesn’t end up in the hands of a few large paving company owners is [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
Making Sure the Stimulus Bill Reaches Workers
Minimum Wage
This past session in the Senate, I introduced a bill that got little attention. Short and to the point, it said that the Vermont minimum wage, which is tied to CPI, would not go down in the event of a decline in the CPI. Some laughed when they saw this bill because it’s been decades [...]