The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, even as the cost of living in the United States continues to rise. After years of sustained pressure, the workers and labor activists leading the Fight for $15 movement have won raises for 22 million workers nationwide through increases in the minimum wage at the local and state levels—but it’s time to do the same for everyone.
Early in the new Congress, Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03) introduced H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act (RTWA), to do exactly that. Read our resource here to learn more, then call your member of Congress and tell them to support H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act, without any harmful amendments or Republican motions to recommit that would water it down.