Issue Position: Working Families

Issue Position

In the current economic climate, American families are working longer hours for less money. Within the past year, the weekly pay of a median worker has fallen 1.5 percent. Additionally, there are over 6.9 million unemployed Americans, and millions more have exhausted their benefits or are still trying to find a full time job.

Today, with the wages of many workers frozen, health premiums on the rise, and pensions endangered, American workers are finding it exceedingly difficult to balance work and family obligations. As a result of this uncertainty within the American workforce, Congressman Lynch co-founded the Congressional Caucus on Labor and Working Families to protect workers rights and American families by developing and implementing a pro-working families agenda in the United States Congress.

For instance, the minimum wage was last raised in 1997 and has been stuck at $5.15 ever since. Adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years. For this reason, Congressman Lynch and the Labor Caucus will work with the Democratic House Leadership in the 110th Congress to ensure that American workers get a raise.

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