Chart: City governments are raising standards for working people—but too often state legislators are lowering them back down: Map of states using preemption laws to block local governments from raising pay and other standards for working people | Economic Policy Institute

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City governments are raising standards for working people—but too often state legislators are lowering them back down: Map of states using preemption laws to block local governments from raising pay and other standards for working people

City governments are raising standards for working people—but too often state legislators are lowering them back down: Map of states using preemption laws to block local governments from raising pay and other standards for working people

Source: Adapted from "Worker Rights Preemption in the US: A Map of the Campaign to Suppress Worker Rights in the States," Economic Policy Institute, November 2017 and Marni von Wilpert, City Governments are Raising Standards for Working People—and State Legislators are Lowering Them Back Down, Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2017.

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