there was no adverse employment effect from wage differences.

There's no reason to believe we can't and shouldn't do it in 2014.

My legislation, the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, introduced along with Majority Leader Reid, will raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three annual steps.

Momentum is gathering in favor of a higher minimum wage, and it is coming from the grass roots.

A fair minimum wage ensures that someone who chooses to work... is not consigned to live in desperate poverty.

Will that put her above the poverty level?

When it is fully implemented, the minimum wage will no longer be a poverty wage.

It's like telling someone hit with a disaster in Boston that they have to move somewhere out past Worcester if they want relief.

We need a level playing field and that includes our tipped workers.

But raising the minimum wage is an essential component of any effort to reduce poverty and income inequality.

These are the Americans who serve our meals, pour our drinks, staff our hotels, cut our hair, and wash our cars. They deserve better.

It sounds like such a small point, but getting not just disclosure, as you rightly say, Mr. Hiltonsmith, disclosure that is clear.