Fast food workers, Wal Mart Workers, service industry workers, and far too many others have been fighting for a wage increase for years. The
last time the minimum wage was raised was on July 24, 2009. Even then the increase was tiny - a raise from $6.55 to a mere $7.25 per hour based on a 3 step minimum wage approved by Congress in 2007. The previous minimum wage, $5.15 per hour, had not been raised in
10 years.
Think back on how much the prices of basic goods and services have increased in the last 18 years. They have long deserved a raise; a meaningful and long-overdue raise. A raise that enables them to pay their bills, buy groceries for their families, and maybe put a few bucks aside for the inevitable rainy day. Instead, what they've gotten is wages so low they need social programs to keep body and soul together and the continued humiliation that crass politicians inflict upon them as though their poverty is entirely their own fault.
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We can do something about this by joining in solidarity to demand a living minimum wage. What better day than Tax Day? A day where we can talk about how tax dollars are used as subsidies to big businesses worsening slavery wages.
There will be massive rallies all over the country on April 15. Will you join in? Click on that link, enter your zip code and the event closest to you will be presented. You can RSVP for updates.
The plutocrats, oligarchs, and corporations hope you won't bother or hope you don't care. They hope you'll stay home because it's "not your problem". They would like you to concern yourself with other matters. They want you to think that your presence, your voice don't matter. After all, you're just one person.
But if we band together and stay together, amazing things happen.
Sign up for your local event
here. Be part of the change you want to see. I hope to see you there.
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