Family-Supporting Jobs
We Value: Family-Supporting Jobs
What we need: Jobs with benefits that pay enough to support families in dignity and offer hope for a better future.
Marilynn’s Story
The jobs I work are often invisible to the public. However they are very important to families and community health and safety. In each of these jobs I was paid minimum wage.
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Get the Facts:
- Over the last forty years, the real value of the federal minimum wage has fallen by close to 30%.
- The ranks of the working poor now exceed 47 million. Today the minimum wage is far too low to sustain working families.
- Women make up less than half of the workforce, but 55% of poverty-wage workers.
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What You Can Do:
- Tell us your story of the need for family-supporting jobs.
- Take action now to support the Fair Minimum Wage Act. Click here to tell your U.S. Congress member that hard work deserves fair pay.
- Sign up for action alerts on campaigns on minimum wage, work supports, unemployment insurance or other local policies.
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