Fighting to Finally Raise the Minimum Wage in Pennsylvania – A Conversation With State Rep. Roni Green

State Rep. Roni Green’s professional life has been about helping people climb out of poverty and fighting for working class families. 

She began her career serving the people as a human services caseworker with the Glendale County Assistance Office, working for nearly two decades to ensure that Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents have access to a path out of poverty. Her experience has deeply informed her understanding of the systemic causes of economic, social and political inequality.

Roni won her first election with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 668 as a Shop Steward and through additional elections held the positions of Philadelphia Chapter 12 Chair, and statewide Secretary/Treasurer based in Harrisburg, while serving as a community and labor organizer for more than 30 years.

As a state representative Roni’s priorities include fighting for a living wage and workers’ rights, affordable housing to preserve neighborhoods and ensure that every working family has a home, sensible gun reform to combat the gun violence epidemic, equitable community and economic development that provides opportunities for all, and criminal justice reform with a focus on ending mass incarceration.

She joins us today to talk about the current struggle to get lawmakers in the state capital to finally raise the commonwealth’s embarrassing $7.25 per hour minimum wage. 

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