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Dear Sen. Reid, Rep. Boehner, Sen. McConnell, and Rep. Pelosi: We are reaching out to you today to ask you to support raising the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour. Ten dollars per hour would be slightly less than the minimum wage of 1968, adjusted for inflation. Hard-working Americans across the country cannot afford […]

Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls on Costco to Support Raising the Minimum Wage, Help Jumpstart Economy and Increase Consumer Spending Consumer advocate Ralph Nader sent a letter today to Costco CEO, W. Craig Jelinek, urging the corporation to again support raising the minimum wage to help jumpstart the economy and increase consumer spending. In 2007, Costco […]

Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls on Walmart to Support Raising the Minimum Wage, Help Jumpstart Economy and Increase Consumer Spending In 2005, Walmart first expressed its support of increasing the minimum wage. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader sent a letter to Walmart CEO, Mike Duke today calling on the corporation to again support raising the minimum wage […]

A whopping seven out of ten likely voters agree that they would support legislation to raise the minimum wage to $10.38 an hour, a level which would tie the wage to inflation, going back to 1968, according to a JZ Analytics online poll of 1149 likely voters. The poll was conducted June 15-18 among 1149 […]

Remarks by Ralph Nader, June 6, 2012 At the Occasion of the Introduction of the “Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012” Legislation to Raise Minimum Wage to $10 Per Hour It is time that we catch up with the 1960’s and raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour. Think about that sobering fact for […]

February 29, 2012 By Ralph Nader How inert can the Democratic Party be? Do they really want to defeat the Congressional Republicans in the fall by doing the right thing? A winning issue is to raise the federal minimum wage, stuck at $7.25 since 2007. If it was adjusted for inflation since 1968, not to […]