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The NHLN’s Top Five Priorities For 2014
http://nhlabornews.com/2014/01/the-nhlns-top-five-priorities-for-2014/
By Matt Murray | January 1, 2014
Today we begin a new year and I thought I would take a few minutes to lay out my priorities for the NH Labor News this year. As the creator and content editor of the NH Labor News, I get to choose the direction the blog moves in. This year we are going to be focused on these five things.
1) Raising the Minimum Wage in New Hampshire and throughout the country:
The minimum wage is so far behind that people are working full time and still live in poverty. We need to increase the minimum wage to help give people at the bottom more spendable income, which they will spend in local stores and businesses.
Raising the minimum wage will also reduce the amount of money that the government shells out in food assistance programs. Raising the minimum wage will create new jobs and increase our GDP.
2) Passing comprehensive immigration reform and providing a roadmap to citizenship.
There is no denying that we need to do something to change our current immigration laws. Every day over 1,000 immigrants are forcibly deported, tearing apart their families and destroying their lives. These immigrants are being physically abused and are having their personal property stolen.
What about the children, the ‘dreamers’, who were brought illegally as toddlers and have lived in the U.S. their entire lives? Many of these children do not know they are not American citizens until they try to acquire a driver’s license or some other government ID.
We need to do something for the 11 million aspiring Americans, who like my great grandparents, left everything to move to American and chase the American dream. They deserve the same chances that our grandparents had.
FULL story at link.
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