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USA TODAY Fast-food workers across the country are planning to strike Friday to keep pressure on the incoming Biden administration and  the restaurant giants they work for to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Employees of McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains will stay away or walk off the job in roughly 15 cities on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s  92nd birthday, said Fight for $15 and a Union, a movement of fast food and other low-paid workers, which is organizing the strike.  "They want to send a message to both the Biden-Harris administration and Congre...

Minimum people need to survive and these workers aren't going to back down, rev. >> let me ask you, let's make this live and tangible to people watching. describe what a family or mom or dad goes through and trying to survive with the current federal minimum wage. what is life like with the current minimum wage for average mom or dad that is trying to make it with their family? >> i can give you a great example. one of our great leaders, terrence wise, from kansas city, missouri, was working at burger king and working at wendy's at the same time, making about $9 an hour, you know, going about ...