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For Minimum Wage Workers, It’s Hard to Fill the Tank |
It now takes more than a full day of work for a minimum wage worker to earn enough to buy a tank of gas.
As the value of the minimum wage sinks and gas prices rise, minimum wage workers are caught in what the Center for American Progress calls “a double whammy.” On average, the center says, a minimum wage earner must put in 11.2 hours of work to fill the tank—up from 5.5 hours in March 2001.
Do we really need more evidence that America needs a raise? Please act now to convince your members of Congress to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $5.15 an hour since 1997 while Republican leaders have blocked efforts to change it.
Click here to urge your representative to sign a discharge petition to bring the minimum wage increase to the House floor, and click here to become a citizen co-sponsor of the Senate bill to raise the wage.
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