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We Must Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: July 24, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income


WE MUST MAKE THE MINIMUM WAGE A LIVING WAGE -- (House of Representatives - July 24, 2008)

(Mr. AL GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, today the minimum wage will increase to $6.55 an hour. This is laudable. However, Madam Speaker, if the truth be told, the increase will be consumed because of inflation, higher gas prices, and higher food prices.

Madam Speaker, we must make the minimum wage a living wage. This is why I have introduced the Living American Wage Act, the LAW Act, such that we can have people who work full time always live above the poverty line.

We have people in the richest country in the world, a country where 1 out of every 33 persons is a millionaire, we have people living in poverty and working full time. No one should work full time and live below the poverty line.

We need to pass the Living American Wage Act, the LAW Act. The living wage should be the law.


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