On Wednesday Wisconsin will become the 12th state to raise their minimum wage since January 2004.
"More states are raising their minimum wages, pushing hourly rates above $7 in some and shrinking the role of the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in eight years," USA Today reports. "...In all, 17 states and the District of Columbia--covering 45% of the U.S. population--have set minimums above the federal rate of $5.15."
Eileen Applebaum, an economist at Rutgers University, states that about 60 percent of minimum wage earners are adult women, and about one-third of that group are African-American or Hispanic, many of whom are the sole providers for their families.
Some of the states we lost consistently side with us on issues, yet these issues, these most important issues, never seem to get to the forefront. It is so frustrating to me that we are still dealing with this kind of overt discrimination in so many facets of life.