We’re at a critical moment in our economic
recovery that requires real leadership and people power to ensure true
economic democracy in our country. There is incredible work being done
to build a strong antipoverty movement, and spaces like these are
fundamental to encourage an open dialogue about our strategies and
tactics as well as our successes and failures.
As corporate profits keep soaring, workers’
wages continue to stagnate, creating the widest income inequality gap
our nation has seen in modern times. At Jobs With Justice we still believe that in America, people who work hard should be paid enough to
live with dignity and raise a family. Today, millions of people go to
work every day and still don’t earn enough money to feed their families.
If people can work full-time and still can’t afford groceries, rent and
medication, then the entire model is flawed and unfair. We can’t
continue down this path of creating bottom-of-the-barrel, low-wage jobs
that condemn our friends and neighbors to poverty.
A critical first step toward regaining our
country’s shared prosperity is to insist that lawmakers adopt a
meaningful increase in the minimum wage. The Fair Minimum Wage Act would
update the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour and give
the law teeth by indexing it to inflation.
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