Minimum Wage Stays Put
Thursday June 22, 2006
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted against increasing the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour. The federal minimum wage will remain at $5.15 an hour as it has since 1997. The federal minimum wage is established by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a U.S. law. Some states set their own minimum wages which requires that those working in those states are paid more than $5.15 an hour. For example, New Yorkers earn a minimum wage of $6.75 per hour.
Comments
How disgusting that this country pays politicians so much money on pre-emptive wars and aid to countries that will never pay us back but can’t raise the minimum wage to a real “living wage”
How would you respond to the position that an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit would be a much more effective and equitable way of helping the working poor than raising the minimum wage?
They want people to work and get off Foodstamps and Tanf but they do not give them enough money to live on.