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  2. Feb 4

    Raising the Federal minimum wage in the worst downturn of our economy since the Great Depression makes perfect sense.

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    No one can tell me that you can live in dignity on $7.25 an hour. It's time to raise the minimum wage to $15. It is long overdue and we must do it now.
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  3. Feb 8

    Rep. is right. Poverty isn’t caused by personal failures. It’s the result of choices by those in power. We need $15 now: 888-639-5155

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  4. Feb 6

    I was going through some old photos and found this one of with not-yet-Union home care workers who were some of the first workers who began the in Ohio. It’s been a long journey, but I believe we can finally get there.

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  5. Feb 2

    Working people and progressives across America have been leading the for years. That's why making the minimum wage a living wage is one of ' top priorities for the package. Thanks to this organizing, we now have behind us too! Let's get it done.

    It’s long past time we raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The American Rescue Plan will get it done.
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  6. Feb 4

    “A new report published by economists at Institute found that increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hour & eliminating the tipped minimum wage by 2025 would free up $13 billion to $30 billion in taxpayer revenue annually.”

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  7. 7 hours ago

    Even $15 would still not be an actual livable minimum wage. It's time for the Senate to catch up to the needs of working people in 2021.

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  8. 22 hours ago

    “Karen Lewis never failed to lift up the value of both low-wage workers & low-wage work. Before her illness took its toll, there was no nursing home strike line w/out her presence, no press conf or rally w/out her eloquent & powerful voice lifting up her support."

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  9. Feb 5

    It’s past time Congress and corporations value the work of Black women. Let's start with $15 & and a union for all.

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  10. 20 hours ago

    For major and costly US cities, $15 and hour was SO five years ago. We definitely cannot wait ANOTHER five years.

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  11. Feb 7

    "One recent survey, for instance, examined 138 minimum-wage hikes at the state level and found essentially no effect on payrolls."

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  12. Feb 3

    Raising the minimum wage would begin to reverse decades of growing pay inequality and narrow racial and gender pay gaps. Read our fact sheet with to see why we must and :

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  13. 6 hours ago

    BREAKING: Workers at in Fayetteville NC are walking off the job ON STRIKE to demand $15/hr, the right to join a union without interference, adequate protection from COVID-19, and an end to racism on the job!

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  14. Feb 6

    Simple things like taking a day off or going to the doctor shouldn’t be impossible.

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  15. Feb 5

    “My reading of the evidence is that those risks are probably not very high. There’s also a lot of rewards—lowering poverty.”

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  16. Feb 4

    "When Congress has not voted to raise the minimum wage since 2007, I will do everything that I can to make sure that a $15/hr minimum wage is included in this reconciliation bill!" tonight on $15 during the "vote-o-rama" on the budget bill.

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  17. Feb 8

    In fact, : Raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr will lift wages for 33+ MILLION workers. (The fed poverty measurement needs to be updated too!)

    Raising the minimum wage to $15 would lift 900,000 out of poverty. It’s time!
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  18. Feb 2

    STUDY: Raising the minimum wage DOES lead to higher wages for workers and DOES NOT lead to $10 Big Macs.

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  19. Feb 8

    Huge victory for working people, with led by at the helm. Now let’s bring it home and ensure all

    BIG NEWS: the Progressive Caucus has secured the inclusion of a $15 minimum wage in the House's pandemic reconciliation package. This has been a leading priority for our caucus and would give 27 million (!) low-wage workers a raise.
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  20. Feb 3

    The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for over a decade—the longest it has been unchanged since the minimum wage was established in 1938. The Raise the Wage Act would deliver wage increases to workers across the country.

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  21. Feb 6

    Tweeting about the and following Sesame Street Characters because

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