The decline in worker buying power is one of the reasons this nation is in the worst economic crisis since the Depression, and it is a big reason we are having so much trouble rebuilding the economy. Businesses are not hiring because they don't have enough customers, and workers are not buying because they don't have the money.
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Raise Wages for Tipped Workers. Support New York City Living Wage Campaign.
Raise Tipped Worker Pay with the federal Working for Adequate Gains for Employment in Services (WAGES) Act. Learn More.
Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act would expand living wage. Learn More.
$10 in 2010 Campaign

Join us to break the cycle of too little, too late raises in the federal minimum wage.
Sign the Faith Leader Letter to Congress and spread the word.
If you aren't a faith leader, please sign here.
Policy Points: Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.
Raising Minimum Wage in Hard Times.
If you aren't a faith leader, please sign here.
Policy Points: Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.
Raising Minimum Wage in Hard Times.
With over 100 member organizations, the nonpartisan Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is the leading faith, community, labor, business coalition committed to raising the minimum wage to a living wage at the state and federal level.

Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you're a minimum wage worker.


