The big picture
Who is moving the causes CSWH follows forward, who is pushing back, and where: from the news, bills and events the daily update finds, and what members share. Every number opens the items behind it, and every item links to its source.
Last 14 days: Oct 15, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026 · updated Oct 28, 2026, 3:33 PM ET
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Totals
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Over time
By cause
Each cause group, busiest first; open one for its causes and their newest items either way. An item about several causes counts once in each.
- Advancing: 11Working against: 1Neutral: 3
1 cause with items
- Advancing: 11Working against: 1Neutral: 3
Newest advancing
- WV HB 5671: Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price indexOpen States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · WV
- WI SB 1123: Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · WI
Newest working against
- VT H 556: An act relating to exceptions to applicability of State minimum wageOpen States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · VT
- Advancing: 11Working against: 1Neutral: 3
Newest advancing
- WV HB 5671: Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price indexOpen States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · WV
- WI SB 1123: Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · WI
- IA HF 2380: A bill for an act providing for a community-based wage enforcement program for purposes of the state wage payment collection and minimum wage laws.Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · IA
- WI AB 1169: Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · WI
- Chili’s is Serving Up Gender and Racial Discrimination to Its Workers, Lawsuit AllegesDocumented (documentedny.com) ·
Newest working against
- VT H 556: An act relating to exceptions to applicability of State minimum wageOpen States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · · VT
Where
In the United States, a state counts its own items and local items in it. Colour the map by activity or balance.
- Mostly against
- Leaning against
- Even
- Leaning advancing
- Mostly advancing
- None
U.S. states
By level
By kind of item
- Meetings and hearingsAdvancing: 0Working against: 0Neutral: 0
- Protests, rallies and marchesAdvancing: 0Working against: 0Neutral: 0
- Legal newsAdvancing: 1Working against: 0Neutral: 0
- Company newsAdvancing: 0Working against: 0Neutral: 0
- General newsAdvancing: 1Working against: 0Neutral: 0
- Bills and lawsAdvancing: 9Working against: 1Neutral: 3
- Other events and actionsAdvancing: 0Working against: 0Neutral: 0
Bills moving
1 bill on these causes had an action dated Oct 15, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026 (of 540 bills tracked).
- Austin 26-2667: Briefing on Living Wages Audit, which looks at whether departments are monitoring their contracts to ensure compliance with the living wage requirements. [Kathie Harrison, Assistant City Auditor; Mateo Macias, Senior Auditor - Austin City Auditor's Office]Introduced · Oct 21, 2026 · Austin, TX · official page
Coming up
3 events on these causes in the next 30 days: rallies, marches, town halls and meetings. All events.
- Market Share Minimum WageThu, Oct 29, 2026, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM EDT · Online · Advocacy (calls, letters, petitions) · Mobilize
- Monday Visibility Bridge Brigade: Cary: 540 @ Carpenter Fire Station RdMon, Nov 2, 2026, 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EST · Cary, NC · Rallies, marches and vigils · Mobilize
- Tuesday Visibility Bridge Brigade: I-147 @ AndersonTue, Nov 3, 2026, 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM EST · Durham, NC · Rallies, marches and vigils · Mobilize
What members are posting
3 posts shared with everyone on these causes, last 14 days, by topic hashtag.
About these numbers
- Every morning CSWH's update reads public news, bills and events and judges each one: which causes it is about, whether it advances a cause or works against it, or is a neutral report, and where it happens. The newest 14 days are in Your feed; a daily record keeps every day's items for 400 days so trends can be followed (it holds 22 days, from Oct 10, 2026).
- Each number is a count of items and opens exactly those items, each with a link to its source. Days with no data are hatched, not counted as zero.
- "Advances" and "works against" are judged per item against each cause it is about, by an AI model that is asked to stay neutral and to cite; the source is always one click away to check.
- Members' posts are those shared with everyone, counted by their topic hashtags; posts have no direction or place.
- Map: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Cartographic Boundary File, States, 1:20,000,000 (public domain), drawn here; no map service is contacted.