Action Alert: Support a fair minimum wage!

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Increase the federal minimum wage

The 99% need a raise. While CEOs make millions and corporations make billions, we are struggling to make ends meet. Increasingly middle class jobs have been replaced by low-wage work and millions of Americans have lost the chance to realize their dreams.

The minimum wage can’t support our families. $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, amounts to only $15,080 a year. That’s more than $7000 below the federal poverty line for a family of four. People who work for a living should be able to support their families and live off their wages.

Contact your US Representative today and ask them to support hard working men and women by co-sponsoring The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012.

This bill would raise the federal minimum wage 85 cents a year for three years, bringing it to $9.80 by fall 2014.
Starting in 2015, it would then adjust the minimum wage each year to keep pace with the rising cost of living, as 10 states currently do.
And it would raise the minimum wage for tipped employees – which has been frozen at a meager $2.13 for more than 20 years – to 70% of the regular minimum wage.

Act today and contact your US Representative and ask them to support hard working men and women by co-sponsoring The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012.

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