District Women Also Support $12:50 D.C. Minimum Wage Initiative
Demonstrators Call On Congress To “Stop Minimizing Women” As It Considers Minimum Wage Discharge Petition
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Led by nearly 200 women and children, low-wage workers and their supporters will march from Union Station on Wednesday March 26, at 4 p.m. to the Capitol for a 4:30 p.m. rally and press conference. The women will call on Congress and local officials to “Stop Minimizing Women.” Two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. An estimated 19,000 women earn minimum wage in the District of Columbia; many are heads of households and almost all are handcuffed to poverty by low wages.
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