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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, you can see a $30 million pilot project to continue implementation of the wage and career ladder
- So that would be for the Early Childhood Education and Care Department for the wage and career ladder
- was an amount for child care assistance that was in the LC rec that was taken out to prioritize that wage
- and career ladder. ...that was taken out to prioritize that wage and career ladder.
- So what did the total wage and career ladder come to, the total, if you put all the appropriations together
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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 4th, 2026 at 08:32 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- They create high-wage jobs, expand the tax base, and generate sustainable income.
- But I also last one to Say we also have a high wage jobs tax credit.
- So to the extent that a taxpayer is creating high wage jobs, that like you're talking about Thank you
- You have again a high CapEx, high wages, but maybe not as many. Or flip to an advanced.
- incentive side, this is one of the only ones that does not stack You can stack the J TIP program with high wage
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/24/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
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- new section is focusing on insurance new section is focusing on insurance fraud,<00:09:17.600>
wage - theft, uh fraud and state fraud, wage theft, uh fraud and state government<00:09:20.080>
programs - insurance fraud, wage theft, financial crimes,<00:19:07.280>
and <00:19:07.520>then <00 - I think under this new wage theft.
- Please state your name for the record and begin your testimony. team as to when a wage theft team as
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/26/25
Jobs and Economic Development
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- flexible schedules competitive wages flexible schedules competitive wages wages<01:09:16.239>
- and benefits and has a supportive wages and benefits and has a supportive workplace<01:09:18.839>
- Within our system, the average wage is just over $21 an hour.
- Is the $21 the starting wage, and is there a cap at $24?
- That is the average wage of all of our CNAs, but yes, they go up rather quickly.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- stand it that the voters are standing up and rising up in support of all manner of measures, like minimum
- wage, voter protection, everything.
- Unions have really worked and gotten all workers better, livable... ...wages and gotten us safety in
- state because labor unions have organized and helped us to have better working conditions, livable wages
MN
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- at the total, the updated total, it's almost $600 million to the businesses, $250 million loss of wages
- at the total, the updated total, it's almost $600 million to the businesses, $250 million loss of wages
- at the total, the updated total, it's almost $600 million to the businesses, $250 million loss of wages
- And I think this bill is the bare minimum that we can do to help people feel that they are protected,
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Turnover and low wages are longstanding challenges in direct care, and really the wages, compensation
- We know that this is becoming very challenging for folks who work in fields that have these wages that
- know to be particularly susceptible to some of the impending policy changes and the lack of increased wages
Summary:
The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities subcommittee on workforce supports met with Chair Andrew Lerault presiding. Members completed roll call, approved the August 2025 minutes, and then heard a presentation from Amy Doyle, director of the Behavioral Health Workforce Center at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. Doyle described the center’s launch in September 2024 and its legislative mandate to study behavioral health payment rates, workforce needs, and licensure/certification barriers, with an emphasis on recruitment, retention, capacity building, diversity/equity, and sustainability. She also shared data on unmet behavioral health needs, ED boarding, workforce shortages, aging and turnover in nursing and direct care, and the need to improve data collection on non-licensed workers and populations such as people with developmental disabilities and autism.
Committee members asked questions about what provider types were included in the workforce data and whether DDS-related residential and direct support roles were captured. Doyle said the center is still working to define and measure the full behavioral health workforce, including non-licensed roles, and welcomed follow-up on missing data sources. Members suggested additional sources such as CHIA and the Association of Developmental Disability Providers’ workforce survey. Doyle noted that the center is working with CHIA and that new licensure renewal surveys for behavioral health and allied mental health professionals will begin in 2025, which should improve future workforce data.
The discussion also touched on the Health Policy Commission’s broader workforce findings, including nurse attrition, burnout, low wages, and the importance of career ladders and advanced training. Doyle said the center’s first policy recommendations will come from its rate study, expected in the next one to two months, and will likely focus on capacity building and sustainability. After the presentation, members thanked Doyle and discussed subcommittee leadership. Chair Lerault announced he was stepping down, and Chris White volunteered to serve as co-chair; the committee agreed to move forward with that arrangement and to revisit FY26 goals once new leadership is in place. The meeting then adjourned by motion and second.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Committee and Assembly Agriculture Committee Oct 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Wages have grown too, but the sticker shock is still real.
- Wages have grown, too, but the sticker shock is still real. have grown too, but the sticker shock is
- So in terms of wages and all that, again, the immigrant labor cannot be substituted.
- Inflation really cut into those wage rises, and the future is uncertain, but to the extent we can get
- safety net, the Central Valley relies on it more heavily than some of the coastal areas where just wage
Summary:
The joint informational hearing of the Assembly Committees on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact and Agriculture, held at Fresno State, focused on cost pressures in California’s food system, household affordability, and the Central Valley’s role in agriculture. Opening remarks emphasized Fresno State’s regional importance, the Central Valley’s outsized contribution to food production, and the connection between agricultural health, food security, and the broader economy. Members also noted the impact of the federal shutdown on CalFresh benefits and the state’s efforts to respond with food assistance funding and National Guard support for food banks.
The first panel featured academic and policy experts who described agriculture’s economic importance in the San Joaquin Valley and the rising pressures on farms and households. Dr. Conduro highlighted agriculture’s large share of regional GDP, farm receipts, jobs, exports, and food manufacturing, while identifying water scarcity, SGMA-related land fallowing, labor shortages and rising labor costs, market volatility, invasive pests, and production cost inflation as major barriers. Caroline Danielson of PPIC said food prices remain about 30% above 2019 levels, food insecurity affects about 1.8 million California households, and nutrition programs such as CalFresh, WIC, and school meals are essential in reducing poverty, especially in the Central Valley. Susie Pryor of the Central California Small Business Development Center described technical assistance, capital access, and training for small food and farm businesses, while warning that reduced funding limits support for rural and immigrant entrepreneurs.
The second panel brought testimony from a small produce business owner, a food entrepreneur, and the Fresno County Farm Bureau. They said input costs for fertilizer, fuel, irrigation, labor, land leases, and compliance have risen sharply while commodity prices have remained flat or fallen, squeezing small farms and food businesses. Panelists stressed the need for small-batch processing facilities, local supply chains, education on food manufacturing compliance, land access for small farmers, and more pathways into agriculture through trade programs, community colleges, and FFA. Ryan Jacobson said California agriculture is facing a prolonged downturn, with farm bankruptcies, weak commodity prices, export-market uncertainty, water reliability problems, and costly ag-burning rules all contributing to financial strain. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken; the hearing was informational and concluded with discussion of possible policy solutions and continued engagement with stakeholders.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Throughout the last four years, the Biden administration waged war on our domestic energy sector, raising
- All those billionaires simply love shipping our jobs to penny-wage nations, and I'm truly surprised President
- Imposing tariffs on North American companies that are struggling to meet penny-wage global competition
- Or Mexico, where the wages and the gap of wages is horrendous compared to our country?
- Our nation's trade gaps need to Be fixed with far too many unfair penny-wage nations and exploitative
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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- These jobs are union jobs with living wages and benefits that strengthen Ohio as a hub for advanced industry
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25
State Government Finance and Policy
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theft involving deaths and even wage theft involving deaths and even wage theft - wages have been stolen from them.
- from their workers and had workers living in abysmal conditions. wages have been stolen from them uh
- we wages have been stolen from them uh we also<00:31:34.320>
uh <00:31:34.960>have <00: - from their workers million from of wages from their workers and<00:31:44.559>
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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025
State Government
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- So, suitable work is employment that is comparable to a job seeker's previous work in terms of wages,
- which is what I mentioned to you. in terms of wages, which is what I mentioned to you, and hours and
- These are the things that I pointed out: similar hours, similar distance, and similar wages.
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NM
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- tax returns aren't finalized until April 15th or so, we get quarterly returns based on current... wages
- and salaries that are being paid to wage and salary workers by their employers.
- But that's also been in inflation, job growth, wage growth, and so on.
- If there was a recession, here's how wages could look.
- which tariffs actually add to the forecast, because as prices rise, of course, gross receipts tax or wages
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House passes jobs, labor and economic development finance bill, SF17 6/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
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- It's all those low-wage workers and all those workers in our society who say, "Look, if I have a baby
- <00:37:33.599>
you <00:37:33.760>can <00:37:33.839>have think it's the lowest wage - you can have think it's the lowest wage you can have with<00:37:34.079>
a <00:37:34.240>high - 00:37:56.720>
It's <00:37:56.960>all <00:37:57.200>those <00:37:57.440>low-wage - It's all those low-wage not just them.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development & Workforce Investment (8-28-25)
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- Our wages are typically higher than other industries.
- <00:12:36.399>
Our <00:12:37.519>wages industry is almost $7 billion. - Our wages industry is almost $7 billion.
- So you could take the wage assessment that we use presently and apply this model to it.
- So you could take the wage systems.
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Meeting Start 00:00:00
Call to Order and Roll Call 00:00:22
Forging the Future: Kentucky's National Leadership in Metals Manufacturing 00:01:33
Improvements to Kentucky’s Incentive Programs 00:52:05, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met for its third interim meeting, approved the prior meeting minutes, and heard a presentation from the Metals Innovation Initiative (MI2) on Kentucky’s metals industry. Speakers described metals manufacturing and recycling as a major economic backbone for the Commonwealth, including steel, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper operations, with broad impacts across production, fabrication, supply chains, and related businesses. They emphasized that the industry supports high-paying jobs, significant capital investment in Kentucky, and is aligned with broader efforts to expand U.S. manufacturing.
A central theme was workforce development. MI2 leaders said the industry faces a persistent talent gap and that current education programs do not always produce the skills needed for modern metals jobs. They argued for stronger exposure and awareness, more direct industry involvement, and a dedicated metals career pathway through high schools, area technology centers, career and technical centers, and KCTCS. They also described pilot efforts in Logan, Warren, and Carroll counties that would introduce students to metals careers in middle school, move them into credits and pathways in high school, and connect them to internships, apprenticeships, and postsecondary training.
Recycling and supply-chain security were the other major topics. Testimony stressed that recycled inputs are far cheaper than raw ore extraction and that recycling is increasingly important to competitiveness, environmental performance, and keeping materials from leaving the U.S. Speakers also raised concerns about China’s large steel and aluminum capacity and said unfair trade and global market manipulation make it harder for Kentucky producers to compete. Committee members and presenters framed MI2 as a collaborative effort among industry, state government, and academia to strengthen workforce pipelines, recycling, and long-term industry growth. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
CPN, CPN DEFER, CPN DEFER Public Hearings 04-11-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- in terms of educational preparation, experiences, and differences in terms of salary versus hourly wages
- I am strongly in favor of nurses being paid wages that are fair, that they deserve to earn for the work
- um wages that are fair that are that um wages that are fair that are that they<00:46:39.280>
deserve - to to advocate for themselves<00:47:00.240>
for <00:47:00.400>these <00:47:00.640>wages - themselves for these wages. themselves for these wages.
Summary:
The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee heard and considered multiple gubernatorial nominations, beginning with several appointments to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund board. Testimony on the Hurricane Relief Fund nominees was overwhelmingly in support from the DCCA Insurance Division, Hawaii Insurance Council, Hawaii Insurers Council, the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund, and various individuals and industry representatives. Nominees Michael Naka, Marie White, Raina Miamoto, Leslie Door, Edward Hike, and Gwen McDonald were discussed, with Miamoto and Hike offering brief remarks about the need to address hurricane insurance affordability, condo coverage, and the importance of attracting reinsurers. The committee spent substantial time questioning Hike about the fund’s strategy, including whether to keep eligibility broad in the first phase to move quickly into the reinsurance market, how much capital would be available, and whether later policy refinements such as owner-occupancy requirements could be added after an initial rollout. Hike said the fund intended to start with broad parameters to secure reinsurance and then consider more targeted changes later, and he indicated further responses to prior committee questions would be submitted later that day. No votes were taken during the excerpted discussion.
The committee then moved to other nominations. Terresa Hernandez was considered for the Hawaii Board of Chiropractic, with support from the board, and she said chiropractic had been a passion for her for seven years. Terrence Aratani was considered for the Board of Nursing, with support from the Board of Nursing, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and others. During questioning, a senator raised concerns from constituents about a 2019 grant-related controversy involving a proposed resiliency hub project; Aratani responded that his organization had partnered on a grant-in-aid proposal, later withdrew when the project scope changed substantially, and said no money was transferred to the other group. Cheryl Schultz Hansen was also considered for the Board of Nursing and described her long nursing and teaching background, while a senator asked about alleged pressure on nurses to participate in employee give-back campaigns at Hawaii Pacific Health and the University of Hawaii; Hansen said the campaigns were voluntary and she was unaware of harassment, though she acknowledged managers may feel pressure to encourage participation. The excerpt ends before any final committee actions or votes on these nominations are announced.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Private Equity Presentation 3/2/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Perennially low wages result in workers living at or near their poverty line and relying on public benefits
- <00:13:40.720>
Perennially <00:13:41.440>low <00:13:41.680>wages <00:13:42.160 - Perennially low wages result in live in.
- Perennially low wages result in workers<00:13:43.120>
living <00:13:43.440>at <00:13:43.680
Summary:
The committee took up two bills concerning health entity ownership and heard invited testimony before acting on them. Dr. Yasha Singh of Brown University testified about private equity in healthcare, describing how PE firms use debt-financed acquisitions, short investment horizons, and roll-up strategies that can avoid disclosure requirements. He said the lack of transparency makes it difficult to track ownership and outcomes, and cited research linking PE ownership to higher costs in outpatient care, more ancillary service use, workforce turnover, and worse outcomes in hospitals and nursing homes. He also noted Minnesota-specific concerns, including PE involvement in opioid treatment programs, and said the policy challenge is balancing needed capital investment with protections for patients and workers.
Sam Brooks of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care testified in strong support of the legislation, focusing on nursing homes. He argued that private equity ownership is associated with worse resident outcomes, including higher mortality, more pressure ulcers, more hospitalizations, and more deficiencies, and said leverage buyouts divert money from staffing and care into debt service, management fees, and lease-back arrangements. Brooks said staffing levels and quality ratings decline under PE ownership and pointed to recent bankruptcies as examples of instability. He said the bills would add safeguards such as transparency, attorney general approval of acquisitions, and requirements that a large share of public funds go to direct resident care.
The testimony framed the bills as responses to concerns about private equity ownership in healthcare and long-term care, especially the effects on quality, staffing, and financial stability. No vote or final committee action was described in the excerpt.
MN
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- what this does is ensure that, as we look at this in the summer, they have the lifeline of a partial wage
- lifeline<00:13:17.920>
of <00:13:18.160>a <00:13:18.399>partial <00:13:18.720>wage - they have the lifeline of a partial wage they have the lifeline of a partial wage replacement<00
HI
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- What we've found in organizing Hawaii's low-wage workers is that many of them are afraid to speak out
- when workplace abuses happen to them, whether it be harassment or wage theft, because of factors like
- What we've found in organizing Hawaii's low-wage workers is that many of them are afraid to speak out
- when workplace abuses happen to them, whether it be harassment or wage theft, because of factors like
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House workforce committee hears HF110 2/18/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Program graduates see real impact, earning wages averaging $20.20 per hour.
- see real skills gap program graduates see real impact<00:05:15.919>
earning <00:05:16.320>wages - <00:05:16.800>
averaging impact earning wages averaging impact earning wages averaging $202