Yesterday former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, one of the Democratic presidential candidates, said he supports a $15 an hour national minimum wage.
“I strongly support the national movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, because it will lift millions of families out of poverty and create better customers for American businesses,” the Democratic candidate for president said in a statement.
“Some people will say this is hard to do,” he said. “And it will be. But leadership is about forging public consensus — not following it.”
“On this issue, we must lead with our progressive values to rebuild the American Dream,” O’Malley added.
O’Malley’s support for a $15 an hour minimum wage leaves Hillary Clinton as the lone Democratic presidential candidate who hasn’t publicly come out in support of a $15 minimum wage, as Sen. Bernie Sanders has already said he supports that kind of increase in the minimum wage.
Zach, thanks.
For context, slave wages are room and board.
When 40 hours at minimum wage, won’t buy room and board, it’s beneath slave wages.