Minimum Rage
“It’s not a pay raise. It’s an adjustment so that they’re not losing their purchasing power.”
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, earlier this week
defending a congressional pay “adjustment” of $3,100.
Since Congress last acted to raise the minimum wage in two phases in 1996 and 1997, the value has eroded by more than 15 percent. In the past eight years, Members of Congress will have raised their own pay seven times—by $28,500. Yet, in those same eight years minimum wage workers have not received a single raise, continuing to earn only $10,700 a year working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. This is $5,000 below the poverty line for a family of three.
DeLay also had said that the House had no plans to vote this year on a minimum wage increase.
Associated Press - March 6, 2005
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Adam says:
July 2, 2005 at 12:07 pm
I think that this is the subject of one of Morgan Spulocks “30 Days” shows coming up in a couple of weeks. I’m glad someone is finally doing “reality” tv.