NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and State Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, are holding a rally to support the raising of the minimum wage to $17 an hour Friday on June 2.
According to the Department of Labor, there is no state minimum wage law. The Department of Labor said employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act and must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
People from all over Nashville and beyond gathered inside the Henderson A. Johnson Memorial Gymnasium at Fisk University.
As people wrestle with inflation, Sanders said during the rally that a job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
“60% of our workers are living paycheck to paycheck. I grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck. Many of you all today are living paycheck to paycheck,” said Sanders as he addressed hundreds from the podium.
The ‘Raise the Wage’ rally was put on by Representative Justin Jones along with Sanders, and Rev. William Barber to showcase the importance of workers making livable wages rather than struggling daily living paycheck to paycheck.
“We are here today to state as emphatically as we can that in the year 2023 no one in America should be forced to work starvation wages,” said Sanders as the crowd cheered in agreement with his message.
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