A coalition of labor advocates, elected officials and workers rallied in Albany on International Women’s Day to demand state legislators pass a series of bills that would especially help low-income women and women of color.

Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, One Fair Wage, Communications Workers of America and Raise Up NY were among the groups who gathered at the state Capitol’s Million Dollar Staircase last week to call on Governor Kathy Hochul to raise the state’s minimum wage and enact initiatives to aid workers, particularly women, struggling to make ends meet.

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