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Durbin Applauds Senate Action to Increase Minimum Wage

Date: Feb. 1, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income


DURBIN APPLAUDS SENATE ACTION TO INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today issued the following statement after the Senate approved an increase in the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over the next two years:

"Congress has been talking about a minimum wage increase for ten years. Talk is cheap but the cost of living isn't. Congress is now a step closer to delivering relief to millions of hard working Americans stuck at $5.15 an hour."

"The average CEO earns more by lunchtime on any give day than a fulltime minimum wage worker earns in a year. Raising the minimum wage isn't just an economic necessity, it's a moral obligation. It will help lift millions of families out poverty and give them hope."

http://durbin.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=268353&&

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