With your help, we can hold the new Congress to its promise to make a minimum wage increase—with no anti-worker strings attached—one of its first priorities. As lawmakers receive thousands of messages from working family activists like you around the country, please add your voice.

Full-time workers at the minimum wage earn just $206 a week. That’s not enough to keep even a small family out of poverty. For many hard-working, low-wage earners, it’s not enough to put food on the table, a roof overhead and shoes on the children’s feet.

Please use the form below to send your Senators a message today—then urge at least 10 friends to take action on the minimum wage. Together, we can make a difference.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

We elected the 110th Congress to work for working families. I urge you to start by passing a clean minimum wage increase.

You now have the opportunity to give millions of minimum wage workers a long-overdue raise, and I strongly hope you will do so. Full-time work at the current minimum of $5.15 an hour yields only $10,712 a year--far below the poverty line, even for a small family.

All recent attempts to increase the minimum wage have been sunk by amendments that would hurt working families--everything from destroying the 40-hour workweek to more tax breaks for the wealthy. It's time to raise the minimum wage, and that means rejecting any poison-pill amendments.

Please vote to pass a clean minimum wage increase with no amendments that would hurt workers.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
January 08, 2007