Rally for higher minimum wage targets Congressman Kline

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5297

By Michael Moore
25 July 2012

BURNSVILLE - Could John Kline live on $290 per week? That’s the question several constituents from the 2nd Congressional District asked their Republican representative in the weeks leading up to the three-year anniversary of the last federal minimum-wage increase.

When Kline failed to provide his constituents with an answer, they decided to deliver a letter to his Burnsville office – and bring along about 50 of their friends and supporters. Together, they rallied in support of efforts to give the country’s lowest-paid workers a raise – efforts Rep. Kline says he continues to oppose.


Constituents urged Congressman John Kline to support an increase in the federal minimum wage.

Photo by Michael Moore

“The economy is getting worse, and people need help,” said Dezirai Jones, a Savage resident who works for minimum wage at a local restaurant. “(Kline) doesn’t know what it’s like to make minimum wage. Even if he tried he would find it hard and a real eye-opener.”

Jones and other minimum-wage workers at the event, staged by the union-backed organization Minnesotans for a Fair Economy, talked about their struggle to make ends meet for themselves and their families.

FULL story at link.

[Scuba]

1. Raising the minimum wage would boost our economy. It stuns me that the Democratic Party...

... hasn't adopted a minimum wage increase for the platform. For every "undecided" vote such a plank would lose, it would gain ten from the current "doesn't bother to vote" crowd.