Save the Date: Rally Thurs. Aug. 5, Noon, Balt. City Hall
Before the 1pm Planning Commission hearing on the 25th Street Development at 417 E. Fayette St. Download the sign-on letter; letter-size or quarter-page fliers; poll showing 79% support. and video of July 22 City Council hearing (7-mins.; also below).
Baltimore CAN has come together, uniting communities, congregations, workers, youth, and small businesses to demand more from development. We call upon the Mayor, City Council, and other elected officials to stand up for Baltimore and expect more from developers, especially those receiving taxpayer subsidies, by enacting Community Standards legislation that requires:
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Background
In 2007, Progressive Maryland lobbied hard and succeeded in passing the nation's first statewide living wage law. The new law shows that Maryland is serious about rewarding work and helping families, and sets the example for more states and Congress to do the same. This law strengthens the ladder for tens of thousands of families living in poverty to climb into the middle class. In the 2006 election, Maryland's voters endorsed just such action.
Progressive Maryland has been fighting to pass legislation to give working families a raise from our very founding. In the last five years, Progressive Maryland has:
The new law requires large for-profit state service contractors to pay their workers enough to make a decent living and feed their families without Food Stamps. In urban counties the rate is a modest $11.30/hour ($23,500/year), and $8.50/hour in rural counties, for full-time work. The principles that living wage laws rely on are the following:
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PM will continue to fight to raise wages so we have healthy families in Maryland and a permanently expanding middle class.




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