Deborah Koff Ross: “If folks don't recognize the current Federal minimum wage of what it means, let me tell you what it means. If you are…”

“If folks don't recognize the current Federal minimum wage of what it means, let me tell you what it means. If you are working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, never get sick and never take a single day off of work for vacation, you earn $10,712 a year. If we are serious as a Nation in moving people from welfare to work, we have got to value their work and we have got to pay them a living wage. And that is exactly what the gentleman from Georgia is talking about doing; and I am so pleased that Speaker-elect Pelosi has included that in her legislative agenda for the first 100 hours.”