This election season, there's understandably been intense focus on ballot questions that will affect reproductive rights, but there's been less discussion of the fact that multiple states will also be voting on whether to raise their minimum wage and grant workers paid sick time.
"If you can put it on the ballot, people love to vote for a raise," the group's executive director, Kelly Hall, told Truthout. "This strategy has resulted in raising the wage every time it has gone on the ballot. It's been a very effective tool for helping to separate common-sense issues like raising the wage from the partisan politics that keep these highly popular issues locked up in state houses."
As Hall notes, red state voters living in states with the amendment process have consistently elected to raise wages, expand health coverage and establish paid sick leave.
"These issues are associated with progressives, but they have a great deal of support on the ground everywhere," Hall said.
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