Lucas,
Does $15,080 a year sound like enough to live on?
That's what someone working full-time at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 makes in a year.
Before taxes.
Assuming he or she doesn't take a vacation or get sick.
Do we need to raise the federal minimum wage?
Public Citizen's founder and former president, Ralph Nader, has a new project called "Time for a Raise," which is focused on this one fact:
For 45 years, the federal minimum wage has not even kept pace with inflation.
Show your support for the simple proposition of raising the federal minimum wage to $10.50 an hour just so that it matches what it was in 1968, adjusted for inflation.
What we call a "minimum" wage in this country is a disgrace.
And it doesn't affect only a few kids with after-school jobs for beer money or entry-level employees who move on to higher paying positions.
Thirty million of our fellow citizens are scraping by on the federal minimum wage. That's one in eight Americans of working age, one in five people with a job at all.
At the very least, the federal minimum wage should be brought in line with inflation, so that those workers make at least as much as they would have 45 years ago.
Take action today at Time for a Raise.
Thanks.
Onward,
Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen