I am writing to you today asking you to support S.1150, the increase in the Federal minimum wage. This bill will raise the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2019. Obviously, the current minimum base is $7.25 per hour which is too low for a full time hard workers to support all their households. As a result of that, they rely on government assistance such as Food stamps and Medicaid.
This issue directly impacts me because nowadays I do not work and can't because i'm a full time student in St…
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