At the start of the new year, minimum wage workers in Massachusetts will see a slight pay raise.
In June 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation that is set to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023 for non-tipped workers and $6.75 hourly for tipped workers. As a result, the statewide minimum hourly wage for non-tipped workers increased to $12 in 2019 from $11 in 2018. For tipped workers, it increased from $3.75 to $4.35 hourly.
A Vermont literary magazine highlighting "rural LGBTQ+ and [people of color] voices" is offering a prize honoring the memory of a former slave who composed a poem about a colonial-era attack by Indians on a white settlement.
Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821), a slave who was purchased and freed by a man who later married her during the mid-1750s, composed a poem about a 1746 attack on what the poem calls "Some very valiant men" in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
