America's minimum wage workers deserve a living wage. In the last three decades the spending power of a minimum wage worker has declined as prices have increased faster than wages.
As nearly ever dollar earned by the working poor is spent quickly, helping low wage earners will boost consumer spending and help to revive the economy.
By increasing the minimum wage we will also take some of the burden off social programs and state governments struggling to address poverty and homelessness.
We support an immediate increase in the minimum wage.