🎭 Not a race race: why it doesn’t matter whether Kamala Harris 'became Black'
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Despite being the first Black woman to run for US President on a major party ticket, Kamala Harris’ identity plays no prominent role in public perception. Hans Asenbaum argues that Trump’s attempts to define Harris are failing because of her intersectionality and fluidity.
  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    you mean that $15 an hour Obama wanted 16 years ago that they keep dangling over our heads until we vote for them?

    At the same time, we’re pushing to guarantee workers the pay, benefits, and protections they deserve as well. We passed the Butch Lewis Act, keeping over 2 million people’s hard-earned pensions solvent. We also raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.20 an hour, and will keep pushing Congress to increase it to at least $15 for all Americans. We’re making millions more hourly workers eligible for overtime pay; and we’ve cracked down on wage theft and exploitation, recovering over $750 million for low-wage workers wrongly denied pay. We’re making it harder for employers to misclassify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them full pay and benefits. We’re banning most non-compete agreements, freeing workers to move between jobs and negotiate. And we’ve restricted mandatory arbitration, so fewer employers can silence wronged employees in a workplace dispute

    https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

    port workers are striking stating $80,000 a year is not enough, and you think $15 will not only cut it today but also buy a house with Harris’s plans

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      I have no idea what your point is here, Democrats have supported this for a long time, but have been blocked by republicans in Congress.
      You complain about $7.25, now you complain doubling it isn’t enough. And you throw around speculations as if they are points for your position.

      $15 may not be a lot, but it’s obviously A LOT better than $7.25.