One Ballot Measure for 2024
For the full list of referendums we’re tracking, see our home page.
Ballot Measure 1
Minimum Wage Increase and Paid Sick Leave Initiative
0n BALLOT: NOVEMBER 5. 2024.
Result: Won with 56.3%
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Sponsor: Better Jobs for Alaska
Description from Alaska Public Media – the measure “seeks to gradually raise the state’s minimum wage, increasing it to $13 per hour on July 1, 2025, $14 one year later, and $15 by July 1, 2027. The wage would be adjusted upward for inflation after that. Another provision of the proposed ballot measure would require employers to provide workers with one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work. Employees at small companies could accrue up to 40 hours of mandatory leave; workers at larger firms could save up to 56 hours.
See our blog post: Social Programs to Help the Poor are Pro-life
PostRoeFuture.com, a statement drafted by prominent pro-life activists and signed by hundreds more, released and publicized January 19, 2023. It says that governments need “to eliminate or reduce the significant economic and social pressures that we know drive women to seek abortion in the first place. ”
Pro-life Commentary
on Minimum Wage
Pregnancy Resource Centers will have an easier time working with pregnant women for prenatal care and new mothers for women’s and children’s health care. The more women are earning, the more PRCs can help. Also, the more the father and other family members are earning, the more PRCs can help.
Yet for those who never cross paths with the PRCs, a minimum wage increase means they feel more supported in choosing life. They have more practical resources available.
Website sponsored by:
See our blog: CLN Blog
Our weekly e-newsletter: Peace & Life Connections
Contact: CLNeditors@googlegroups.com