Posts tagged Muriel Bowser
Lessons from D.C.: Why “$30 by ‘30” Wage Plan Could Leave Servers with Less
October 26, 2025 // Mr. Mamdani’s plan is being aligned with a renewed push by progressive New York legislators to eliminate the tipped-wage system, which would require restaurant workers to be paid the same minimum wage as all other tipped-wage positions. Legislation has been percolating in Albany in recent years that would phase out the tipped wage by 2028, with a prominent “Living Wage for All Coalition” now launching to guide the effort to fruition. Behind the coalition is the group One Fair Wage, which has been spearheading a systematic effort to eliminate the tipped-wage system in progressive jurisdictions across America. One Fair Wage has seen success in large cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., but as these policies take hold, the economic reality is starting to bite.
DC Police Union backs Trump’s takeover, citing ‘out of control’ crime
August 13, 2025 // n a statement to multiple news outlets, union chair Gregg Pemberton said the group supports Trump’s decision, citing concerns that crime is “out of control” and that officers are operating beyond their limits. Mayor Muriel Bowser called Trump’s takeover order “unsettling and unprecedented,” saying she was caught off guard by the move’s scale. On Monday, she highlighted that violent crime in the city has dropped to its lowest point in 30 years, continuing a downward trend that began in 2019 before the pandemic.
Even Gavin Newsom opposes this Big Labor inflationary scheme
November 4, 2024 // Likewise, PLA opponents can cite multiple studies of hundreds of taxpayer-funded affordable housing and school construction projects, which found that government PLA mandates increase the cost of construction by 12% to 20% compared to similar non-PLA projects already subjected to union-friendly prevailing wage regulations. The latest study of affordable housing projects funded by Los Angeles Proposition HHH found that PLA projects were 21% more expensive and suffered delays 27% longer than non-PLA projects.