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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders: "$7.25 an hour - Most people understand that’s a Starvation Wage."
Look. Heres the story. The story is that the national minimum wage is seven and a quarter an hour. I think most people understand thats a starvation wage. Individuals cant live on it. Families cant live on it. If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which to my mind doesnt go as far as it should, that would be a raise for 30 million Americans, vast majority of them are adults. And thats just not people making seven and a quarter an hour. Its people making eight bucks an hour, nine dollars an hour.
And at a time when almost all new income is going to the top 1%, it is time that working people, lower income workers get a raise, and we have got to do that. Now if the Republicans refuse to go along with that, and I very much hope that they will go along with it. I hope they understand that the overwhelming majority of the American people across the political spectrum understand that we have got to raise the minimum wage, so I hope that we can get this done.
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Bernie Sanders: "$7.25 an hour - Most people understand that’s a Starvation Wage." (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2013
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)1. We need you, Bernie Sanders.
K&R
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)2. Can we elect THIS guy as President? nt
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. k&r for Bernie Sanders. n/t
-Laelth
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)4. Most people, that is, except those complete idiots that occupy Congress.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)5. And the Mega Rich andmost of it's Government Don't Care