It's Time to Give America a Raise - Pass the Fair Minimum Wage Act E action

[Omaha Steve]

http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=204

Americans who work hard should be able to make a living. Working full-time in a minimum wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That's just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It's not enough to live on. A breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the federal poverty line.

Most minimum-wage earners work for big corporations. These corporations keep giving their CEOs bigger bonuses every year, but then claim they can’t afford to pay their employees.

Meanwhile, CEO pay is skyrocketing. We need Congress to act to raise the minimum wage closer to covering the cost of living.

The current federal minimum wage – $7.25 per hour – is not enough for a full-time worker to lift a family out of poverty. It is lower than it was in the 1960s, adjusted for inflation.

FULL info at link.

[Jon Ace]

1. The repubs will not vote for it, which is sad... (K&R)

...since a higher minimum wage would help get some people off welfare, something that repubs despise.

But that's what I get for thinking there are logical repubs in DC.