NASHVILLE, Tenn. - On the day the federal minimum wage increased from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour, one Nashville group says it should be $10 an hour.
The group Let Justice Roll rallied Friday at Legislative Plaza to make its point about pay.
"We are going to be helping these people one way or another, either when it is too late and they are sick or not enough food or poverty or now when they can earn enough money honorably to support themselves and their families," said Rabbi Saul Strosberg.
Rabbi Saul, of Congregation Sherith Israel, supports the group's efforts to help people like Bill Hall, who now makes the new minimum wage of $7.25 an hour at a West End Avenue car wash.
"It's hard these days," said Hall. "You are not making that much money and it seems like what money you do make goes all for bills. By the end of the week it's like, ‘Man, why don't I have any money?"
When asked if he could find a higher paying job, Hall said it's hard to find another job with three young children.
"They come before you and anyone else," he told News 2. "If someone would hire me, I would gladly take it."
To meet the 70-cent mandated minimum wage increase, some employers might cut jobs or raise prices of their service.
At the West End car wash, workers said their prices increased $1.50 Friday.
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