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Wage Campaigns
Living Wage NYC
Kingsbridge Armory
Redevelopment Alliance
Queens Center Mall
Campaign
Retail Action Project
Minimum Wage Bill Needs Support
A new bill presented by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep.
George Miller (D-Calif.)would help millions of low-wage earners. The
legislation (S. 1062 and H.R. 2429)would raise the federal minimum wage
to $7.25 an hour in three steps over 26 months.
The minimum wage has been $5.15 since 1997, and Republicans have
continually fought increases which would lift many Americans out of
poverty.
At the current minimum wage level, a full-time, year-round minimum wage
worker in 2004 earned only $10,712 this year—$5,378 less than the
$16,090 needed to lift a family of three out of poverty.
“It's a travesty that a family of three earning the minimum wage works
five days a week all year round yet still lives below the poverty line.
What does that say about us as a country,” said Sen.
Kennedy.