Minimum Wage Act
When, Henry Ford began the long assembly line and payed $5 an hour, far beyond the prevailing wage, he said that he wanted his employees to be able to buy the products they make.
Work gives pride, dignity, and hope to our lives and our communities.
Unfortunately, too many families are working full-time and have nothing to show for it. They are raising their kids in poverty and living in fear that one health crisis or pink slip will drive them over the edge. A single mom with two kids who works full-time for the minimum wage is about $4,000 below the poverty line.
Executives have figured out how to pay themselves more, while paying their workers less. It's a national disgrace that poverty is up for the fourth year in a row. It’s time to reward work with an increase in the federal minimum wage. The minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 per hour or $10,700 a year for a full-time worker, for ten years.
During this time the costs for health care, housing, child care, transportation and everything else has skyrocketed, and members of Congress have raised their own pay by $31,000. Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress have refused to give hardworking men and women the pay they deserve.
A fair increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. People see their friends and neighbors struggling to survive on poverty wages. You can be a citizen co-sponsors for the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which will raise the minimum wage to $7.25 over two years. To help make this effort a success, each of you will need to sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, and encourage others to do so. With your participation in this process, we will succeed and give minimum wage workers a well-earned raise.
http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/minwagecosponsor
Business lobbiest argue that raising the minimum wage will harm the economy and lead to the loss of small business jobs. Research suggests just the opposite.
Oregon has the second highest minimum wage in the country and reports job growth double the rest of the nation. Oregon’s Labor Commissioner says: “They always predict the gloom and doom, but it really just hasn't borne out in the figures across Oregon. I think that increasing the minimum wage helps Oregon.”
States with a higher minimum wage have better jobs growth than states paying the minimum wage. Small retail businesses in higher-wage states, report double the job growth of the rest of the country.
By raising a worker's wage, you’ll hold onto experienced workers, and productivity may go up. Recruitment and training costs go down, and workers spend those higher wages almost entirely in other local businesses, creating more jobs.
Work gives pride, dignity, and hope to our lives and our communities.
Unfortunately, too many families are working full-time and have nothing to show for it. They are raising their kids in poverty and living in fear that one health crisis or pink slip will drive them over the edge. A single mom with two kids who works full-time for the minimum wage is about $4,000 below the poverty line.
Executives have figured out how to pay themselves more, while paying their workers less. It's a national disgrace that poverty is up for the fourth year in a row. It’s time to reward work with an increase in the federal minimum wage. The minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 per hour or $10,700 a year for a full-time worker, for ten years.
During this time the costs for health care, housing, child care, transportation and everything else has skyrocketed, and members of Congress have raised their own pay by $31,000. Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress have refused to give hardworking men and women the pay they deserve.
A fair increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. People see their friends and neighbors struggling to survive on poverty wages. You can be a citizen co-sponsors for the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which will raise the minimum wage to $7.25 over two years. To help make this effort a success, each of you will need to sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of the Fair Minimum Wage Act, and encourage others to do so. With your participation in this process, we will succeed and give minimum wage workers a well-earned raise.
http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/minwagecosponsor
Business lobbiest argue that raising the minimum wage will harm the economy and lead to the loss of small business jobs. Research suggests just the opposite.
Oregon has the second highest minimum wage in the country and reports job growth double the rest of the nation. Oregon’s Labor Commissioner says: “They always predict the gloom and doom, but it really just hasn't borne out in the figures across Oregon. I think that increasing the minimum wage helps Oregon.”
States with a higher minimum wage have better jobs growth than states paying the minimum wage. Small retail businesses in higher-wage states, report double the job growth of the rest of the country.
By raising a worker's wage, you’ll hold onto experienced workers, and productivity may go up. Recruitment and training costs go down, and workers spend those higher wages almost entirely in other local businesses, creating more jobs.
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