This episode of Voices for Human Needs is all about the fight to raise the federal minimum wage. Co-hosts Abigail Alpern Fisch and Leo Nguyen from the Coalition on Human Needs speak with Judy Conti, Director of Government Affairs at the National Employment Law Project, Adam Orman, co-owner of a neighborhood restaurant in Austin, Texas, L’Oca D’Oro, and Trupti Patel, a lead organizer at One Fair Wage in Washington D.C. These policy advocates, activists, and organizers discuss the top-line impacts of raising the federal minimum wage through the Raise the Wage Act, the disproportionate impacts of a low federal minimum wage on women workers and BIPOC workers, and what listeners like you can do to organize in your communities in support of One Fair Wage.

Read more about this episode, at the Voices for Human Needs Blog: https://www.chn.org/voices-for-human-needs/

To learn more about the work being done by each of our speakers and their organizations as mentioned in this episode, please see below:

Judy Conti: The National Employment Law Project: https://www.nelp.org/campaign/raising-the-minimum-wage/

Adam Orman: Good Work Austin: https://www.nelp.org/campaign/raising-the-minimum-wage/, L’Oca D’Oro Restaurant in Austin Texas: https://www.locadoroaustin.com/values/, Newsweek article mentioned by Adam: https://www.locadoroaustin.com/values/

Trupti Patel: One Fair Wage: https://onefairwage.site/

This podcast was produced by the Coalition on Human Needs: https://www.chn.org/