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For more information call: 202/219-8211.
Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich today announced a
toll-free telephone number for minimum wage workers to tell him how raising the
minimum wage would affect their lives. Reich announced the effort at a national
conference sponsored by Women Work! The National Network for Women's
Employment.
"There are those whose voices are heard loud and clear in
Washington, powerful groups who can spend millions of dollars on lobbyists.
Then there are the rest of Americans--who don't have the money to get their
voices heard," Reich said. "That is why we are launching an 800 number for
minimum wage workers. We will bring these stories to Capitol Hill when the
Senate Labor Committee holds hearings on raising the minimum wage."
Minimum wage workers may call the toll-free phone number
(1-800- 786-4975) 24-hours a day until November 17. They may also contact the
Labor Department through the internet at MINWAGE@DOL.GOV.
According to Reich, "low-wage workers--three-fifths of
them women and 39 percent the sole breadwinners in their families--are those
whose lives would be boosted by the President's proposal to increase the
minimum wage over two years.
"I hear from so many of these people as I travel across
the country, and I want to hear from even more. I want them to tell me exactly
how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their lives, and the lives of
the families they are trying hard to raise."
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