Restore Hope
"I'm for the minimum wage raise because I need the extra money to pay for rising gas prices and other bills. I'm being paid $6.53 an hour, but all I got is a four cents an hour raise in almost two years. I'm a Republican, but I've had enough of being paid too low for working hard like a beaver. My wife and I deserve a better life." -- Mark R., Evansville, Indiana.
The concept is as simple as it is American: a fair wage for an honest day's work. Our economy is built on that promise, but it hasn't been kept for nine years. In that time, the cost of living has soared, our nation's working families have suffered, and the Republican Congress gave itself annual pay raises totaling almost $35,000.
Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Nevada and Ohio passed measures on election day to raise their state minimum wage far above the disgraceful $5.15 an hour federal level. Now that Democrats have control of Congress, their top priority is to restore the economic promise of America by raising the federal minimum wage as well.
Even though Democrats are in control of the House and Senate, Republicans will try anything to block this important increase. Eighty-six percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, and Democrats intend to pass it as soon as possible.
Millions of working Americans are living in poverty today, forced to make impossible choices between buying food or buying prescription drugs. Between paying the rent or paying the heating bill.
It's time to restore the faith that America works for all our people, not just the rich and powerful. It’s time for Congress to reject this economic injustice that divides our people, and weakens our country. It’s time for Congress to be a strong voice for the powerless and restore hope for working families.
To insure faith in America and that economic injustice will not occur again, all pay raises for members of Congress should require a corresponding percentage increase in the minimum wage.
The concept is as simple as it is American: a fair wage for an honest day's work. Our economy is built on that promise, but it hasn't been kept for nine years. In that time, the cost of living has soared, our nation's working families have suffered, and the Republican Congress gave itself annual pay raises totaling almost $35,000.
Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Nevada and Ohio passed measures on election day to raise their state minimum wage far above the disgraceful $5.15 an hour federal level. Now that Democrats have control of Congress, their top priority is to restore the economic promise of America by raising the federal minimum wage as well.
Even though Democrats are in control of the House and Senate, Republicans will try anything to block this important increase. Eighty-six percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, and Democrats intend to pass it as soon as possible.
Millions of working Americans are living in poverty today, forced to make impossible choices between buying food or buying prescription drugs. Between paying the rent or paying the heating bill.
It's time to restore the faith that America works for all our people, not just the rich and powerful. It’s time for Congress to reject this economic injustice that divides our people, and weakens our country. It’s time for Congress to be a strong voice for the powerless and restore hope for working families.
To insure faith in America and that economic injustice will not occur again, all pay raises for members of Congress should require a corresponding percentage increase in the minimum wage.
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