Is the $15-an-hour minimum wage here to stay?
In The News Piece in Christian Science Monitor
May 20, 2015
With this changing employment landscape comes a slow shift in perspective, as Americans come to terms with what this brand of economic recovery means for them, says Sherle Schwenninger, director of the economic growth program at the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation. “Improvement in the larger employment picture has not brought higher income or job security,” he says. “The anxiety about being able to locate jobs that allow for economic security and stable income feeds into overall sentiment about raising the minimum wage.”