'$7.25/hour, in 2023, is a poverty wage,' the AFLCIO wrote.
that"instead of pushing culture wars and partisanship, lawmakers should focus on the 800 people dying each day from poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth."
"Our politicians have failed to act, and leaders who stand silent in the face of these injustices are guilty of policy murder," they continued."Indeed, our demand for a living wage is the moral issue politicians should be focused on." "Poor and low-wealth people make up nearly 40% of the electorate and have the ability to decide elections," Barber and Brown added."We are calling for ato lift our nation's 140 million poor and low-wealth people from the bottom up. This includes raising the outdated minimum wage to a living wage as well as updating the also-obsolete official poverty measure to reflect what it takes to secure a decent standard of living today. America has gone 14 years without a raise.
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