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Victory for Tacoma Workers and Immigrants

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Even Private Prisons Must Obey The Law

Northwest Detention CenterA Federal Court ruled that the NWDC must pay at least a minimum wage to inmates who work on site. This is a victory, not only for the worker inmates, but for all of Tacoma’s low-wage workers who fight for economic justice.

Seattle Times staff writer Mike Carter reported on the story on May 13. This story tells us that Federal Judge Robert Bryan has just ruled Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) must pay state minimum wage to worker inmates. In other words, NWDC can no longer get away with paying only $1/day to these locked-up workers.

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Why Tacoma Needs a $15/hour Minimum Wage

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Homeless tragedy, low wageBack in 2014, the ORIGINAL 15 Now Tacoma website published a post titled Why Tacoma Needs a $15/hour Minimum Wage. The reasons that post gave for raising the minimum wage are still largely valid, and you might want to check it out after you’ve read this article..

Here are some more recent data:

In 2017, the official poverty rate in Tacoma was 17%, not much changed from 2014. And according to the City of Tacoma’s 2016 Community Needs Assessment Report, 26% of Tacoma’s children still live in poverty.

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