Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC promoting the initiative on the November ballot for worker sick leave and an increase in the minimum wage:

C232421 08/19/2024 Missourians for Healthy Families & Fair Wages Sixteen Thirty Fund 1201 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20036 8/19/2024 $1,225,000.00

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That’s serious support.

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Allows workers to earn paid sick time off.

This measure allows workers to earn paid sick time off, at a rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked, or around 7 days a year for a full time worker at a larger company and 5 days a year at a smaller company. Working parents deserve to take time off to take care of themselves and their children just as much as wealthy executives that already get sick leave and other benefits.

Raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour

A full time minimum wage worker currently makes less than $25,000 a year. This measure would help over 137,000 parents as well as 338,000 kids who live with a parent who earns minimum wage by gradually raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2026. This is an adjustment that small businesses can get behind that allows parents to get their feet underneath them, pay the bills, and work toward better opportunities.
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The Sixteen Thirty Fund believes in the power of new ideas, creative partnerships, and emerging leaders to achieve meaningful and lasting solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. We help changemakers maximize their impact by providing operational support that allows them to focus on advancing their core missions.

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Our Approach

The Sixteen Thirty Fund is an independent 501(c)(4) organization that uses a fiscal sponsorship model to maximize our impact and create lasting change. Sixteen Thirty Fund and the projects we support are fighting for economic equity, affordable health care, climate solutions, racial justice, voter access, and other essential social-change goals.

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Focus Areas

From advancing equity and racial justice, to promoting access to affordable health care, to confronting climate change, to strengthening our democracy, we are proud to support leaders and causes that share our progressive values and aspirations for a fair, just America.

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Fairness. Justice. Change. Looking to the future. How novel…