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Raise the Minimum Wage

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: July 25, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income


RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE

Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I speak for the least among us. And in speaking for them, I remind us that it is time for us to raise the minimum wage. That is ``raise'' as in r-a-i-s-e, not raze as in r-a-z-e, because there are people in this country who would raze, who would decimate, not elevate, who would decimate the minimum wage.

Mr. Speaker, these people are not among those 37 million who are living in poverty. They are not among the millions who make $5.15 an hour. They are not among those who suffer and languish in poverty with no way out.

Mr. Speaker, those who make $5.15 an hour work through Christmas. They work through Easter. They work through Thanksgiving. And they make, at the end of the year, $10,712.

Mr. Speaker, it is time to raise the minimum wage. I speak for the least, the last, and the lost.

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