America's Workers
Our national workforce keeps our country running and provides invaluable services we often take for granted. Nobody should have to work multiple jobs or extraordinary hours to provide for their family, save for retirement or feel financially secure. As an electrician by trade, I know the best social program in the world is a job and I believe every worker must have an opportunity to succeed, which starts with fair pay. Women have made great strides in history, but it’s time they receive equal pay for equal work and the opportunity to maintain a work and family balance. We need to ensure working families have fair wages, safe working conditions, and a voice in the workplace.
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Cherry Hill, NJ-Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today joined with South Jersey women, advocates and the Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey in a united call for gender pay equity.
CBS Philly. By Hadas Kuznits
...Representative Donald Norcross, congressman for NJ's 1st congressional district, visited with the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey to talk about The Paycheck Fairness Act.
..."The Paycheck Fairness Act is the second generation of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which talked about making sure that women are paid the equal amount that men are paid when they're doing the same job," said Norcross.
NJ.com. By Samantha Marcus
...Senate President Stephen Sweeney and U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross on Tuesday announced a joint effort to raise the state and federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
...Norcross' bill in Congress, he said, would raise the minimum wage 75 cents in the first year and $1 a year until hitting $15 an hour. Future increases would be tied to the rate of inflation. Sweeney's state version would depend on amending the constitution to raise the rate to $9 in the first year and $1 a year until reaching $15 in 2024.
Courier Post. By Donald Norcross
...I've always said the best social program is a job. But that job should pay a living wage. No one who works full time should live in poverty. Yet that's the reality for far too many of our neighbors.
...Working families deserve a raise, and that's why I've put forth a plan to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Blackwood, NJ-Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today unveiled his plans for a graduated $15 an hour federal minimum wage.
"No one who works full-time should live in poverty. But that's exactly what we're seeing all around us. Working families are struggling to pay the bills and the reason is our low minimum wage," said Rep. Norcross at a news conference at Camden County College, Gloucester Township Campus.
NJ.com. By Michelle Caffrey
..."Something is fundamentally wrong when hard-working Americans go to work and they can't pull themselves out of poverty," said Norcross after he laid out statistics that show a single person working at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 full-time, 52 weeks a year, who takes no holidays or sick days, still falls below the federal poverty line.
NJ Pen. By Matt Skoufalos
...The fire departments of Camden City, Collingswood, and Pennsauken already participate in mutual-aid agreements that help protect the residents of each community, but on Wednesday, the trio deepened that partnership with a significant win: a $1.7-million FEMA grant to standardize life-saving equipment for its first responders.
..."The uniqueness of this grant is the communities working together," said U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ), who noted that three, proud departments stifled their competitive impulses in the process.
6ABC. By Annie McCormick
...The site will house an estimated 700 employees, and is expected to be ready in late 2017. It is located next to Campbell Soup's headquarters and expected to be part of a larger corporate office park.
..."For those who call Camden home, there's going to be opportunities for jobs. Subaru has committed to that," said Norcross.
President Obama recently signed the National Defense Authorization Act, helping to ensure the national security of the United States and preserve the critical programs at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
New Jersey's Joint Base and the military and civilian jobs there are key to our state's economy. I'm proud to have led this bipartisan effort to advance the mission of the base and safeguard the KC-10 refueling tanker with my colleague from New Jersey, Congressman Tom MacArthur.
Washington, DC-Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today voted to pass a long-term transportation bill, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The bipartisan legislation now awaits President Obama's signature.