It Is Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income
IT IS TIME TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE
Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, it is past time to raise the minimum wage. It was last raised in 1997. Currently, a person working full time at $5.15 an hour will make $10,712 per year. The poverty line is $13,461 for a family of two.
We must raise the minimum wage. No one should work full time and stand in a welfare line. No one should work full time and live below the poverty line. People do not want welfare. People want self-care.
It is time to raise the minimum wage.
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