Help Women Survive and Recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic
YWCA USA joined this letter urging Congress to pass these two critical bills as a first step in enacting a robust agenda to help women survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession, which includes raising the minimum wage to $15/hour, creating a permanent paid family and medical leave policy, setting a national paid sick days standard, creating an equitable, sustainable child care system for all, protecting women from violence and workplace harassment, and strengthening the right to organize and bargain collectively.
Support Underpaid Workers: Raise the Wage Act
YWCA USA joined this letter to call on all Members of Congress to finally give nearly 32 million workers the raise they have fought so hard to secure by raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 generating $107 billion in higher wages for workers.
Pass the Raise the Minimum Wage Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act
YWCA USA joined NWLC's letter urging Congress to cosponsor and swiftly pass two the Raise the Wage Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act that will advance core values for millions of women and families across the country by demanding equal pay, pay equity, and raising the minimum wage.
Pass the Raise the Wage Act of 2019
YWCA USA joined LCCHR's letter to support the Raise the Wage Act of 2019, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $8.55 this year and increase it over the next five years until it reaches $15 an hour in 2024; additionally addressing pay equity and help close the gender wage gap.