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Women Tell Congress: “Stop Minimizing Women”

Demonstrators Call On Congress To “Stop Minimizing Women” As It Considers Minimum Wage Discharge Petition

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scores of women and their children shared stories of dwindling hope and poverty as the Congress prepares a discharge petition to force a vote on the Fair Minimum Wage Act. More than 100 women and children, low-wage workers and their supporters rallied at the West Front of the Capitol demanding that elected officials raise the nation’s minimum wage from a meager $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Families also called on District residents to support a voter initiative that calls for a minimum wage of $12.50 in the District of Columbia as the cost of living skyrockets above national averages here.

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Women And Children March For $10.10 Federal Minimum Wage

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

20131205_114543WASHINGTON, 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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Over 200 Support Striking McDonald’s Workers

Today: Workers & supporters protested low wages at McDonald’s locations at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Va., and Wheaton, M.d.; calling for higher wages to boost the local economy

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