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Washington, D.C. Today, ten women members of the House of Representatives congratulated the people of Maine and Flagstaff, Arizona for supporting initiatives that eliminate the lower wage for tipped workers. The federal tipped wage today is $2.13 an hour, a level that has not changed since 1991. According to a recent study by Washington Center for Equitable Growth, tipped workers who rely on customer tips not only earn less but are twice as likely to experience sexual harassment as workers in states that have eliminated the subminimum wage.
CHICAGO – November 3, 2016: Late last night in Cleveland, Ohio, the Chicago Cubs in a heart-stopping thriller beat the Cleveland Indians 8-7 and won the franchise’s first World Series in 108 years. Congresswoman Schakowsky released the following statement:
“Generations of Chicagoans have grown up hoping that each year would be the one where the Cubs ended their championship drought. Today, we can joyously say that 2016 is the year,” Congresswoman Schakowsky said.
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CHICAGO - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky released the following statement after new rates for the Affordable Care Act were announced this morning:
“Announcements of premium increases for 2017 must be met with a commitment to make health care more affordable. Obamacare constructed a sound foundation – providing patients’ rights, ending discrimination against women and people with pre-existing conditions, eliminating annual and lifetime limits on benefits, and covering 20 million previously uninsured Americans.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky, Ranking Member on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (IL-09); Frank Pallone, Jr., Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee (NJ-06); G. K. Butterfield (NC-01); and Lois Capps (CA-24) wrote Administrator Denise Turner Roth at the General Services Administration (GSA) calling on the agency to reduce the number of vehicles in the federal fleet under open recalls and end the practice of selling vehicles before recalls have been fixed.
Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky released the following statement after the Social Security Administration announced a cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for 2017 of 0.3%:
