Congressman Dan Kildee Pushes for $10.10 Federal Minimum Wage on National Minimum Wage Day

On National Minimum Wage Day (10/10), Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today renewed his call for Congress to immediately act on legislation he has cosponsored, H.R. 1010, to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10. This comes as a report by Working Poor in America shows that raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 would give 25 million hard-working Americans – including six million working moms – a raise, lift as many as six million people out of poverty, and infuse more than $32 billion into our national economy.  

“No one who works full time in Michigan should have to raise their children in poverty. Yet a single mother with two children working 40 hours a week and earning the minimum wage currently lives below the poverty line. Congress needs to take action immediately to raise the minimum wage to give hardworking mothers and Michiganders a raise. Doing so will help to grow our economy, support small businesses, and lift many out of poverty,” Congressman Kildee said.

One of the first bills cosponsored in Congress by Congressman Kildee was H.R. 1010. The bill would increase the minimum wage over three years from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour, index future annual increases to inflation thereafter, and gradually increase the tipped minimum wage to 70 percent of the minimum wage.

Congressional Republicans have blocked Congressman Kildee’s legislation to raise the wage at least eight times, even though a majority of Americans – more than 70 percent – support such an increase, including an overwhelmingly majority of Democrats, Republicans and Independents, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.