Tag: Fight for $15

"I've been criticized for this so let me say it again: the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour."

“Workers in America have seen 40 years of wage stagnation.”

Connecticut now joins New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland by passing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.

"We shouldn’t be begging for scraps when we have a corporation that makes $6 billion a year and we ain’t even making $15.”

"No family in the United States can live on $7.25 an hour. Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do and long past due.”

Current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 2009.

For the CEOs, soothing talk about a surging economy is a lot easier than actually investing in the country that made them rich.

"The time is now to have an economy that works for everyone, not just a handful of billionaires."

"There's no separation between the moral battle for voting rights and participation in democracy and the moral battle against systemic poverty. Those battles go together."

In Ohio and beyond, governors are signing corporate-backed laws to stop local communities from raising their minimum wages.