a LOT has changed, but the minimum wage hasn’t

Friend,

Picture this — it’s 2009. Barack Obama is sworn in for his first term as President. Kanye interrupts Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. Jersey Shore makes its debut on MTV. Avatar becomes the highest-grossing movie of all time. And Congress just raised the federal minimum wage to $7.25.

A LOT has changed since 2009, but the federal minimum wage? Well, it hasn’t budged. We need a minimum wage that reflects the economic reality we’re living in now, not the one we remember from more than a decade ago.

We’ve seen IRL how raising wages improves the lives of America’s working families. How? Since 2016, we’ve won campaigns in 9 different states to raise wages, and this work has put more than $22 billion into the hands of workers. Now we’re taking the fight to Nebraska → Team, will you support our work to raise wages across the country?

When you think about it, it’s simple. We aren’t living in the same economic conditions as we were in 2009 — back when an iPhone cost $199 not $1,099 and the average cost of a home in the U.S. was $173,200, not $348,079 (!!) Bottom line, friend: We shouldn’t expect families to make ends meet with a 2009 minimum wage in 2022.

We know how to get this done — we’ve done it 9 times over now. So, team, will you join us in the fight for fair wages? Chip in today to help bolster our campaigns to raise wages across the country. →

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Thanks, team — we couldn’t do this work without you.

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Thanks to grassroots supporters like you, our team at the Fairness Project has won 24 people-powered ballot measure campaigns since 2016, changing over 18 million lives by expanding health care, raising wages, guaranteeing paid leave, and ending predatory lending directly at the ballot box when politicians refuse to act. Your support allows us to make this progress possible.

 
 
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