Fighting For A Living Wage In Hawai'i
What A Day
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, workers in Hawai’i are rallying at their State Capitol to raise the state’s minimum wage for the first time since 2018. Christy MacPherson, the Lead Community Developer at the Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice, joins us to discuss how workers are being affected by low wages in the highest cost-of-living state in the nation.
Russia and Ukraine engaged in their third round of talks on Monday, which once again ended without any major progress. The United Nations reported that at least 1.7 million Ukrainians are now refugees, half of whom are children, and tens of thousands of people who are still in Ukraine lack power, heat, water, medicine, and food.
And in headlines: The Supreme Court said it will not review the decision that freed Bill Cosby from prison, the Pentagon announced that the US Navy will permanently close its Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawai’i, and Lady Gaga announced the new tour schedule for her Chromatica Ball tour.
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Raise Up Hawai’i: https://www.raiseuphawaii.org/
Hawai’i’s State Legislature: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday March 8th, I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice and this is What A Day. |
| 0:11.5 | The podcast that had to scrap our Pete Davidson Clevver's video concept when we learned |
| 0:16.0 | Kanye West at first. |
| 0:17.5 | Okay, but ours is better. |
| 0:19.5 | So... |
| 0:20.5 | It's less violent. |
| 0:22.5 | Our's is like pretty Pete Davidson supported, you know? |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, the Supreme Court won't reinstate the conviction of Bill Cosby. |
| 0:35.8 | Plus, the fight for a higher minimum wage in Hawaii with the cost of living is the highest |
| 0:40.0 | in the country. |
| 0:41.0 | But first, a quick update on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:44.1 | Yesterday, the two countries engaged in their third rounds of talks, which once again |
| 0:48.4 | ended without any major progress. |
| 0:50.9 | So a Ukrainian official did say that there were, quote, small positive shifts regarding |
| 0:54.5 | logistics of humanitarian corridors. |
| 0:57.8 | Those are the safe passageways for Ukrainians who want to leave cities like Kiev or Karkeev, |
| 1:02.5 | or who want to leave the country altogether. |
| 1:05.2 | And it's a small but good sign since those corridors had become increasingly risky after |
| 1:09.7 | the failure of a number of ceasefires that were negotiated to allow safe passage to civilians. |
| 1:15.2 | Still, the talks did not result in the ultimate goal of ending the Russian invasion altogether. |
| 1:20.4 | So Josie talked to us about what Russia is actually asking for during these talks. |
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