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February 20, 2019

Illinois Adopts $15 Minimum Wage
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Illinois became the latest state to adopt the call for a $15 minimum
wage, when Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday to reach that
goal by 2025. Workers celebrated the news after a years-long campaign
for fair wages in the state. This is fast-food worker and a member of
the group Fight for 15, Ieshia Townsend, speaking at the bill signing.

Ieshia Townsend: "Before the Fight for 15 union movement, I felt
voiceless. All around me was overwhelming messages that I didn't matter
as a fast-food worker, as a single mom-that I didn't even matter as a
black woman."



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