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Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 10:50 AM CDT
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(Our Summer writers might still be getting used to that 'post to front page' button. =) - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
In case you missed it, the US Senate denied our country a raise in the minimum wage standards yet again. The vote was 52-46 in favor, 8 votes shy of the needed majority, even with some Republicans breaking ranks to vote in favor.
Senator Edward Kennedy only proposed a hike to $6.25 (compromised from an earlier $7.25). The current minimum wage is only $5.15, which is has been since 1997. Instead, the Senate has decided it needs to raise it's own pay for the 8th time since that year - a total of $31,000!
15 other states and D.C. have set standards above the federal level. When is the state of Texas going to realize that we can not sit by and wait for the federal government to increase the living wages of our citizens?
I would like to call on the next session of the state legislature to increase the minimum wage in Texas. |
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