Living Wage Campaign

Have you ever worked for minimum wage?

The last time I did I was 14 years old, working on my grandfather's construction crew, and I made the grand sum of $3.35 per hour. I didn't need the money, I was doing it, or so my dad reasoned, so I'd learn the value of education. Of course, I learned the lesson all too well, much to my families chagrin: I'm now 30 and finishing up a PhD.

At minimum wage, working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, a person can gross about $11,000 per year. Yes, that's right: $11,000 per year.

How is anyone supposed to live on the minimum wage? The minimum wage is not a living wage. Until the elites come to their senses and raise the minimum wage (something George Will recently called an "unimportant" political goal!) various Living Wage Campaigns around the country are agitating for change.

ACORN started this movement, and they deserve your support.

ACORN is making a difference; there's even a Living Wage Campaign in Dallas, which is hardly a hotbed of progressive activism.