You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
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The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.