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No Raise in THREE Years? ACTION US


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Nancy
- 300 days ago - action.momsrising.org
Millions of workers - mostly women - struggle to make ends meet on minimum wage. At just $7.25 an hour, or roughly $14,500 per year, the current federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in THREE YEARS and is leaving working families in poverty.



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Judy C. (106)
Tuesday July 24, 2012, 5:51 pm
The minimum wage is little more thn an insult. Signed. Thanks, Nancy.
 

Jason S. (55)
Tuesday July 24, 2012, 7:03 pm
thanks, signed
 

Regina P. (79)
Tuesday July 24, 2012, 10:02 pm
Signed. Thanks
 

Emma S. (135)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 3:07 am
Done! Thanks, Nancy.
 

Carol H. (215)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 9:30 am
signed and noted
 

Toni A. (189)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 10:08 am
signed. I agree with Judy. Maybe they should stop shopping jobs overseas and bring them back home and people can work two jobs to make ends meet.
 

Lisa Neste (527)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 12:59 pm
Action taken, thanks!
 

Joe R. (157)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 2:58 pm
Signed and noted.
 

Lois Jordan (42)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 3:36 pm
Signed & Noted. Much thanks, Nancy.
 

Terri Hughes (413)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 3:47 pm
''SIGNED''....thanks Nancy!
 

Gene Jacobson (200)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 3:56 pm
They'll never raise it enough for even one person to live a safe, reasonable life, but to do nothing at all is despicable, even for this Congress.
 

Vicky P. (346)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 4:01 pm
signed and noted
 

Nicole W. (282)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 7:13 pm
signed and shared
 

Mary away T. (189)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 8:58 pm
Signed and noted
 

Zee Kallah (23)
Wednesday July 25, 2012, 11:43 pm
When I go to the grocerry store to buy my own food, I wonder how the families make it. How do they eat at all! The portions are so small and expensive.

Well, I grew ujp on beans, fried potatoes and peanut butter. That was healthier than a lot of kids eat today.
Even peanut butter is expensive considering the small size of the jars.

Good night. I finished Nancy's list up and I'm going to bed.
 

Ancil S. (171)
Thursday July 26, 2012, 12:38 am
Noted,signed,and face-booked.
 

Dandelion G. (363)
Thursday July 26, 2012, 5:51 am
Then we have spammer Sfref S. with no friends who doesn't seem to realize that many can't afford their cheap illegal knock off crap they are selling on here. Why do they bother. Please people don't note their news when it is on the C2 listings. Flag as inappropriate when seen.

•Women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
•A woman working full-time, year round at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour earns just $15,000 – more than $3,000 below the poverty line for a family of three.
•The federal minimum cash wage for tipped workers has been $2.13 per hour for 20 years. Women are nearly two-thirds of workers in tipped occupations.
•Raising the minimum wage to $9.80 per hour would boost earnings for more than 28 million workers, nearly 55 percent of them women, and help close the wage gap.

Disgusting. As usual it is always the women, children, and Elders who suffer the most. Is that way in Countries of great famine, the Elders and children get left behind to die.
 

JL A. (167)
Thursday July 26, 2012, 7:33 am
The workers who made it happen deserve a reward at or beyond the cost of living increases since their last raise
 

Sara W. (100)
Thursday July 26, 2012, 8:59 pm
Signed!
 

Charlene Rush (14)
Thursday July 26, 2012, 10:32 pm
The minimum wage should be tied in to our legislators salaries and benefits, on a percentage basis.
If they get a raise, so does everyone else.
 

brenda c. (87)
Friday July 27, 2012, 12:15 pm
Noted and signed. Thank you Nancy.
 

Susanne R. (208)
Monday July 30, 2012, 12:16 am
This is inhumane, yet employers are able to get away with it while their CEO's are pulling in multi-million dollar yearly salaries.

Gladly signed and noted.
 

Sue D. (155)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 12:22 am
Signed, noted and shared. Good comments here. Sheryl, another star (if I could) and Susanne too!
 

Laurie H. (385)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 5:09 am
Definitely signed--Thanks Sheryl& Susanne!~~
 

Dan and Tina Partlow (68)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 6:25 am
N&S
 

Cynthia D Occupy (340)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 9:04 am
Signed & shared
 

Patricia E. G. (56)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 10:48 am
I have noted & Signed
Every signature on every petition is a reminder to the government
that we the people can't make it on these paultry wages.

Thank you for putting another one out there Sheryl :)
 

Terrie Williams (540)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 12:39 pm
Signed, noted and shared on FB
 

Terrie Williams (540)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 12:41 pm
Care2 isn't working again for me. Or at least, clicking on note it isn't. Sigh.......
 

Jim Phillips (2907)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 5:26 pm
Petition signed.

Ty, Nancy.
.
 

Rhonda Maness (599)
Tuesday July 31, 2012, 6:59 pm
Signed
Thanks Dandelion and Nancy
 

Ellen M. (224)
Thursday August 2, 2012, 12:53 pm
Good comments, but what dandelion said really hit home, as i worked as a bartender in Alabama 20 years ago, and that is about what i made back then..and i also sometimes whipped up a sandwich and served when i was the only one working...and the tips SUCKED, as almost all of my customers didn't even realize the wages were that low...when they did thing improved a little :-)
 

Carole K. (199)
Friday August 3, 2012, 9:19 am
Noted & signed. TY, Nancy!
 
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