House Dems Want To Raise The Minimum Wage

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House Dems Want To Raise The Minimum Wage

Published Feb 1, 2012

From CT News Junkie
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The current minimum wage is not enough for working families to get by, Donovan said Tuesday. For example, a family of three with one person working would earn $17,160 a year under the current minimum wage. That’s $5,000 under the poverty line, he said.

“So people are working, putting in 40 hours week 52 weeks out of the year, and their earning poverty wages,” Donovan added.

About 106,000 people in Connecticut earn the minimum wage and around 83 percent of them are over the age of 20, he said. Many of the jobs that the state has gained as its worked its way out of the recession have been low paying, he said.

“We have mothers and fathers who lost their jobs and are now trying to make ends meet and the jobs that are available to them, because they want to work, are minimum wage jobs. We have to do our best as a society, as members of the General Assembly to say, ‘We understand that you’re working hard and we want to make sure you get enough wages that you are not poor,’” he said.
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