Colorado’s Fight For Affordable Transit Continues
January 25, 2018
Hear Jenee Donelson, 9to5 Transit Organizer, speak about RTD’s backwards priorities on a recent Colorado Public Radio story! 9to5 Colorado has been organizing for nearly 4 years to push public transit authorities to provide riders who make 200% of the poverty line a transit pass that would be 50% the cost of regular fares (similar to a senior…
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Colorado Minimum Wage Increases to $10.20!
January 24, 2018
9to5 helped lead the fight to increase the minimum wage because WOMEN make up the majority of minimum wage workers across the country, and Black and Latinx women are significantly over-represented in low-wage work!
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Trabajadoras Together
November 2, 2017
On average, Latinas who work full time, year round make only 54 cents to every dollar made by white, non-Hispanic men. I’m the sole provider for myself and my four kids. Why should I have to work two jobs just to earn what a man can bring in working one job?
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Republican Repeal of ACA Gives $600 billion in Tax Breaks To the Wealthy and Big Corporations
April 19, 2017
DENVER – State Senator Rhonda Fields joined homecare providers, health care advocates, doctors and people who depend on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for health care on tax day to release a joint report from Americans for Tax Fairness and Health Care for America Now (HCAN). The report, Republican Health Care Repeal Plan: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Health Care Cuts for Everyone Else, details how the Republican plan to repeal the ACA would give billions in tax breaks to wealthy households, insurance companies and drug manufacturers, paid for by cutting the health care of low- and moderate-income families.
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