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<div style="text-align: right;"><em>&nbsp;a katz/Shutterstock.com photo</em></div><div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;">The first statewide push of its kind for a $15 minimum wage was kicked off Thursday in New York.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, made his call to action a call for justice, standing alongside Vice President Joe Biden, Fortune reports.</div><div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;">&#8220;Every working man and woman in the State of New York deserves $15 an hour as a minimum wage. If you work full time, you should not live a life in poverty, period,&#8221; Cuomo said. </div><div>  </div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The so-called Fight for $15 is nearly three years old, and it has achieved significant victories, as Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles have adopted $15 minimum wages. But so far, those successful campaigns have come at the city and county levels. Cuomo is seeking a $15 minimum wage for all of New York&#8212;the first statewide push of its kind.</div><div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;">New York&#8217;s minimum wage is $8.75 and is set to move to $9 at the end of the year. Some low-wage workers in the state are already getting a bigger pay boost. In July, the state wage board suggested raising the minimum wage of all fast-food workers to $15, which was approved recently by the state&#8217;s labor commissioner. Cuomo was able to target fast-food workers&#8217; wages outside the legislative process because the state empowers the labor commissioner or a wage board to assess whether pay for a particular job is sufficient.</div><div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;   vertical-align: baseline; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;">New York state will gradually raise the minimum&nbsp;for fast-food workers to $15 an hour. Cuomo's administration formally approved the increase Thursday and announced it at the labor rally.&nbsp;</p>On Thursday, Cuomo said that if fast-food workers deserve $15 per hour, so do construction workers, home health care aides and taxi drivers.<div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;">Read the original story here:&nbsp;<a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/new-york-minimum-wage/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=new-york-governor-makes-push-for-statewide-minimum-wage-hike-2462" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FORTUNE</a></div><div style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;</div>

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