{"id":14761,"date":"2015-02-20T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14761"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:39:59","slug":"toot-toot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/toot-toot\/","title":{"rendered":"Toot! Toot!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, blowing Oregon’s horn has been more difficulty than normal, given the national exposure of the Kitz scandal and Oregon’s more ludicrous Republicans.  So, before Rachel does a segment like Monica Wehby Wants to Be the New Governor’s First Lady<\/em>, I’ll blow Oregon's horn while I can.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0220PorOr\"On Wednesday, the Portland, OR city council voted unanimously<\/a> to increase the minimum wage for city workers and contractors to $15 an hour, currently the highest minimum wage anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n

They amended the Fair Wage Policy, which sets the floor for about 173 full-time city employees and contractors. Most of the affected workers are janitors, parking attendants, and security workers paid by contractors who are subject to the policy. The wage increase could also trickle out to those who work for third-party vendors that honor the Fair Wage Policy.<\/p>\n

Workers who won’t be covered include 1,800 seasonal and part-time employees mostly working for the Parks Bureau, many of whom have a capped number of hours they can work each year, often making their part-time status involuntary.<\/p>\n

The wage hike comes as a bill is being considered<\/a> in the Oregon legislature to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour from its current level of $9.25…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

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Lately, blowing Oregon’s horn has been more difficulty than normal, given the national exposure of the Kitz scandal and Oregon’s more ludicrous Republicans.  So, before Rachel does a segment like Monica Wehby Wants to Be the New Governor’s First Lady, I’ll blow Oregon's horn while I can. On Wednesday, the Portland, OR city council voted […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}