A Fair Break

The following is excerpted from an e-mail I received today from the One America Committee (associated with John Edwards):

The minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 per hour for ten years--while costs for health care, housing, child care, transportation and everything else have skyrocketed and executive pay has steadily increased. Executives have figured out how to pay themselves more, while paying their workers less. It's a disgrace--but not a surprise--that poverty is up for the fourth year in a row.

It is time--past time--to reward work with an increase in the federal minimum wage.

Senator Ted Kennedy is reaching out to us for help. He has sponsored a bill to increase the minimum wage in three increments to $7.25 an hour. And he's asking us to sign on as citizen co-sponsors of his bill to show the broad base of support in the country for increasing the minimum wage.

We can win this fight. Last year, we were able to get 46 Senators to vote in favor of increasing the minimum wage, even though some supporters were out of town at the time of the vote. We can pass Senator Kennedy's bill this year, but only if people across the nation show they care about the issue.

I was honored and excited that Senator Kennedy had learned about the power of our online community. He's put his faith in us.

Now we need to deliver our signatures to him.

http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/minwagecosponsor

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