Raise the Minimum Wage
Many business owners argue that the minimum wage increase would only cause difficulties and make up their prices, but many workers support the minimum wage increase is necessary in order to help low-income workers dig out of poverty. Today, the real value of the minimum wage is about 20 percent less than when Reagan took office. Tipped workers have an even lower minimum wage: $ 2.13 per hour, unchanged from 1991. On average minimum wage worker full-time makes $ 14,500 a year, leaving too many families struggling to reach End of the month. A family of 3 living minimum wage is well below the poverty level
According to the White House, since the call of the President to action in 2013, 18 states and Washington, DC they have passed legislation to raise the minimum wage-- benefiting millions of American workers. At the federal level, the Obama administration has expressed support for the Levante Act proposed by Senator Murray and Scott Representative salary, which would increase the minimum wage to $
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29 states plus the District of Columbia have set their minimum wage above the federal level of $ 7.25 per hour from 1 January 2015. The 15 states plus the District of Columbia, the rate of their minimum wages up automatically with the cost of living. 10 states currently indexed minimum wage increases every year: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington. Five more states, plus the District of Columbia, will wage increases index minimum starting annually in the coming years: Alaska (2017), DC (2017), Michigan (2019), Minnesota (2018), South Dakota (2016 ) and Vermont (2019). 8 states have established the minimum wage equal to the peak value of the full minimum wage, ensuring that workers who receive tips paid the full minimum wage directly by your