05/21/2024
https://www.congress.gov...
"By forcing hard working people into the safety net, politicians opposing minimum wage are saying that work should not pay."
"In Pennsylvania alone, a minimum wage increase is estimated to raise the pay of over 600,000 women and lift over 127,000 workers out of poverty."
"Raising the minimum wage is a step toward reducing income and wealth inequality, which we know and Pope Francis reminds us is the root of all social ills."
"A worker should be able to support a family from the wages earned. It is shocking that people in the richest nation on earth would work full-time and still live in poverty."