Elizabeth Warren: Tell Congress to raise the minimum wage.

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When I was in junior high, my daddy had a heart attack. The medical bills piled up, and we lost our family station wagon.

So my mother did what she had to do: She went to work answering the phones at Sears. The job paid only minimum wage, but it was enough to make sure we could keep our home.

If minimum wage had kept up with productivity gains since that time, it would be $22 an hour today. But it didn't – and today millions of hard-working moms and dads work full-time and still live in poverty.

No one should work full-time and live below the poverty line. That's why the Democratic women of the Senate have joined together to say it plain: It's time to raise the minimum wage. Please stand with us now, and urge Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

To me (and probably you), raising the minimum wage is a no-brainer. We know that if hard-working families have money in their pockets they will be able to help grow the economy.

Why should people work two or three jobs and still struggle to make ends meet? Why should people who work full-time have to count on food stamps to feed their families?

This is the answer: Raising the minimum wage would cut into the profits of those who have already made it, and they have an army of lawyers and an army of lobbyists to make certain that the system stays rigged in their favor.

Powerful interests might need to be dragged kicking and screaming to raise the minimum wage, but I'm going to keep fighting – and so are the rest of the Democratic women in the United States Senate.

Please stand with the Democratic women of the Senate now – and urge Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

When I was growing up, full-time work would keep your family out of poverty. Now, the game is rigged against working families.

Raising the minimum wage is one way we can start to level the playing field. Change like this is hard, and I can't guarantee the success of our efforts. But I know this: If you don't fight, you can't win. So let's fight.

Thank you for being a part of this,

Elizabeth

PETITION: Raise The Minimum Wage
http://www.timetoraiseminimumwage.com/?source=warren

[Laelth]

1. k&r for Elizabeth Warren.

And thanks for this post.

-Laelth

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Can you imagine if we raise the minimum wage to $22 an hour

Go to $10.10 right away, then add $1 per year until we hit $22, then index to productivity gains?

Wow.

[ProSense]

4. "urge Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. "

Did you sign the petition?

[MannyGoldstein]

8. Signed.

I hope that it can convince Elizabeth, Ed, and Joe that they should go for it...

[ProSense]

9. Thanks. n/t

[diabeticman]

3. Went to sign it and couldn't get pass the contribute page

[ProSense]

5. How is that? It goes to a page that says: PETITION: Raise The Minimum Wage n/t

[diabeticman]

6. When I went to the page it loaded the Petition page a second than it "blinked" --for lack of a

better word and when the icon showing the page was loading stopped I am looking at a page asking for a contribution.

I told my wife and she said something like that happened to her when she went ancestry.com to give the free trial a try. She said a credit card screen pop up briefly before it said welcome to ancestry .com and next thing she knows the only credit card she ever used online-- other than prepaid-- was charged 13 days later. according to the gentleman she spoke to it has happen to people in the past AND it is just logging in the credit card info you used recently.

I at first thought my wife did something wrong until it happen to me today now I have to wonder if it is our computer.

[ProSense]

7. Kick! n/t

[Coyotl]

10. Done. If we want this done in Congress, we need real action. $12 hr initiative drives in states

where possible. Nothing will drive this issue like all the cheap labor fleeing the South and red states.

[Jamaal510]

11. If only

they would raise the MW to $20 or even $30 per hour...then we'd really be cooking with oil. In this political climate with the GOP blocking everything that is overwhelmingly supported by the country as a whole, I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. We'll be lucky to even get it up to $10.10.

[ProSense]

12. Kick! n/t

[ProSense]

13. Kick for

more signatures. n/t