Elaine Luria Said All Her Staffers Make a ‘Living Wage.’ She Lied

“…Luria paid staff assistant Madeleine Gagne $8,311.10 from January through March, the Democrat’s latest expense disclosures show. That pay rate marks a yearly salary of just $33,244.40, which is thousands of dollars less than the $40,362 an adult with no children must earn to make a living wage in Virginia, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s living wage calculator.

Luria says she believes “that everyone deserves a living wage to raise a family in the community.” But Gagne is not the first staffer in the Democrat’s office who earns less than the income required to reach a living wage in the Old Dominion…”