CSPAN Washington This Week October 11, 2014
Rebuilding infrastructure, making sure women are paid fairly, and making it easier for young people to pay off student loans. One of the fastest ways to help folks get ahead is raising the minimum wage. Ask yourself, could you live on 14,500 a year . That is what someone working fulltime on the minimum wage makes. If they are raising kids, that is below the poverty line. That is not right. A hard days work deserves a fair days pay. Right now, a worker on the federal minimum wage earns 7. 25 an hour. It is time to raise that to 10. 10 an hour. Raising the federal minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour ...