Raise the Federal Minimum Wage. Modify the Fair Labor Standards Act to raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $12 to keeping up with worker productivity and inflation.
$10.69: How much the federal minimum wage would be if it had kept up with inflation over the past 40 years. Instead, it’s $7.25.
$15,080: The annual income for a full-time employee working the entire year at the federal minimum wage.
0: The number of states where a minimum wage worker can afford a two-bedroom apartment working a 40-hour week.
3: The number of times Congress passed legislation to increase the minimum wage in the last 30 years.
19: The number of states (including the District of Columbia) which have raised their minimum wage above the federal level of $7.25.
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