Janice Hahn: “Good for them. I think, as Jan Schakowsky talked about, Nancy Pelosi and Rosa DeLauro, we have had this incredible…”

“Good for them. I think, as Jan Schakowsky talked about, Nancy Pelosi and Rosa DeLauro, we have had this incredible campaign called When Women Succeed, America Succeeds. The point is it is good to help women in this country because this will really help America to succeed. And we no longer have the kind of families that many of us watched on television in the fifties. In fact, the American family has permanently changed, and women head up more families on their own. More than half of the babies born to women ages 30 and younger are born to unmarried women--by the way, most of them White. We have got women who are heading their families. We have got women who are trying to take care of their families. They are now the sole breadwinners in their family. They are not necessarily the second income or the income that helps out with the man having the major income. The statistic, I think, out of the Shriver Report that was really eye-opening for me, when we talk about the minimum wage, is that two- thirds of the workers who earned a minimum wage in this country are women. And if we could raise this minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, how many more women that would lift out of poverty. And not just the women, their families. We have too many families, children, who are living on the brink, and this is so important. To talk about women wanting sick days, it is unbelievable to me how many women who work in these minimum wage jobs don't get sick days.…”