June 15th, 2006
Congressional Raises & Minimum Wage
If you make the Federal minimum wage, you earn $5.15 an hour — officially raised last in 1998. Working 40 hours (if your employer allows that) a week 52 weeks a year with no vacation, no holidays, and no sick days, you would earn $10, 712. (If you work those max number of days, that’s 260 days a year.)
Congress works less than 250 days over every two year period called “a session”. They are in Washington D.C. less than 3 days a week and are facing record lows in approval ratings. Yet, this week, for the seventh year in a row, lawmakers embraced a %2 “cost of living” raise that bringing their salaries to $168,500.
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