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Low-Wage Workers March on Vegas Strip in Fight for $15

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Thursday, April 14, 2016   

LAS VEGAS - Thousands of low-wage Nevada workers are expected to go on strike today, then rally on the Las Vegas Strip for a raise in the minimum wage. It's one of hundreds of protests happening around the country as part of the Fight for $15 movement. In Nevada, the minimum wage is $8.25 an hour, a dollar above the federal minimum, which works out to $330 a week or a little more than $17,000 a year.

Shimmy Leany, who works in the kitchen at a Burger King, said it's impossible to get ahead on those kind of wages.

"It's really hard to pay the bills, especially just saving up for maybe retirement or anything else," he said. "It makes things just really difficult in general."

California, Pennsylvania and New York recently passed a gradual hike in the minimum wage to $15 an hour, so Leany said he's hoping to seize the momentum and make it happen in Nevada.

Laura Martin, associate director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, said poverty wages strangle the economy by preventing a large part of the population from spending money to buy things such as homes or cars.

"In Nevada, close to half of our jobs are retail or service jobs, and those jobs pay minimum wage," she said. "And we're seeing more and more jobs like security guards, adjunct professors, child care, home health care, they're paying minimum wage or less than $9."

The Fight for 15 movement took hold about two years ago in Nevada. Two different bills to raise the minimum wage died in legislative committee last year. State Senator Tick Segerblom promises to reintroduce the idea in the 2017 session.


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