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30 States Take Action to Raise Minimum Wage!
Posted on February 22, 2005
If you have watched Struggling to Survive, you know the hardships faced by families who rely on $5.15 per hour salary. There has not been an adjustment to the federal minimum wage of $5.15 in seven year. If there is no change made under the current administration, the US will reach a record 11-year stretch without an adjustment.
123 cities and counties have implemented a living wage (laws that mandate higher minimums for certain categories of workers) and over thirty states, plus the District of Columbia, have either set a minimum wage higher than the federal level or have had bills introduced in their legislatures this year that would do so. Following these successes, the campaign for raising the minimum wage has shifted its focus from the city and state to a national level.
David Swanson's article A Livable Minimum Wage examines the movement for a federal fair wage.
READ his article from AlterNet.
TAKE the Minimum Wage Challenge from Solutions for Progress.