What can $7.25 get you? Not much. Unfortunately, $7.25/hour is the federal minimum wage. It’s been the minimum wage for a decade, despite steadily rising housing, food, and childcare costs. At this wage, a family of two (one adult and one child) officially lives below the poverty line.
This year, Iowa Democrats in the House tried to pass the Raise the Wage act, which would have raised the minimum wage to $15/hour. And although more than a third of Iowa’s workforce makes minimum wage, my opponent Joni Ernst was one of the Senate Republicans who made sure the bill died.
This travesty hurts even more people during the holiday season, when many Americans take on low-paying second jobs so they can give their families a little something to look forward to during the holidays. But outside of the holiday season, many people work more than one minimum wage job all year long just to barely make ends meet. Can you imagine the difference in the lives of these people if we made a higher minimum wage happen?
Would the corporations who fill Miserly Joni’s coffers really hurt that much if the minimum wage increased? Of course not. But their fat cat executives might have to occasionally fly commercial instead of private, while right now, the people who work for them struggle just to buy gas.
As long as people like Joni Ernst are in the Senate, working Americans will suffer. That’s why I’m fighting to represent you. I’m the Senator who can’t be bought. I’m the Senator who knows what it’s like to struggle to get by.
I’m here to turn this broken system on its head and give Americans a fighting chance. Will you fight alongside us?
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