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The gap between the rich and the working poor (the middle class) is getting ever so wider.\u00a0 So, when the President announced that Congress should work together to raise the minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $10.50 an hour, every-body in Congress, should’ve signed on\u00a0to this\u00a0Bill. But no,\u00a06 members of Congress,\u00a0 decided to spoil it all. Congressional Members voted 54\u00a0to 42 majority, can you believe it. The House needed a 60-vote majority to pass the Bill. Has its the Republicans, yes I can believe it. Republicans members killed the Bill.<\/p>\n
This significant wage hike could have gone along way\u00a0 for many families who are hurting right now; working but can’t make ends meet because each year the cost of living goes up<\/strong> but people’s paychecks are\u00a0staying stagnant. This, in itself is a crime because the Government knows quite well that people can’t go on living this way and that their way of calculating what’s fare should be updated.<\/p>\n The increase could’ve helped so many individuals, college students, low wage earners as well as the middle class.\u00a0\u00a0Its a crying shame that one of <\/strong>the richest nation on the planet\u00a0is treating their populace as a second class nation. We can do better than this, no one should have to tell Congress that the nation needs a pay raise; they should know by what they are seeing in their own communities and what their constituents are telling them.<\/p>\n People at the next ballot box (election) speak your mine, let Congress know just how you feel about what they are doing to your pocket book.<\/p>\n By the way, people pay your tax because in some States the VMD is taking away people drivers lic, if you don’t pay up to the IRS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GOP’S FAILUE TO HELP THE WORKING CLASS By: C. Harrison\/May 1, 2014 The gap between the rich and the working poor (the middle class) is getting ever so wider.\u00a0 So, when the President announced that Congress should work together to raise the minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $10.50 an hour, every-body in … Continue reading The Nation Letdown<\/span>