Received this e-mail from Senator Mark Udall (D. CO) today:
It's impossible to climb into the middle class when it's a struggle just to put food on the table. All American families deserve a fair shot at the American dream, and our country is strongest when everyone that works hard has the opportunity to succeed.
That's why I'm teaming up with Sen. Cory Booker and Progressives United, to call on Congress to support the Minimum Wage Fairness Act that would raise the federal minimum wage. Click here to sign our petition.
http://www.progressivesunited.org/...
If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation over the past 40 years, today it would be $10.86 an hour. Instead, a mother working at a minimum wage job is only making $7.25 an hour. This hardship on working families is only worsened by the fact that two thirds of workers earning the minimum wage are women.
By giving 17 million hard-working Americans a raise to a more livable wage, the economy would grow by $22 billion and create about 85,000 new jobs.
Join us in calling on Congress to act now and pass the Minimum Wage Fairness Act. Our country’s hardworking families deserve a fair shot.
http://www.progressivesunited.org/...
If you work, you shouldn’t live in poverty — simple as that. It’s time to raise the federal minimum wage.
http://www.progressivesunited.org/...
Thanks for your support,
Mark
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