Advocates for $15 minimum wage call on NC lawmakers for hike
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The way Jeremiah Jaynes describes it, the choices he has to make are too difficult.
Making about $10 per hour as a cook, he says some months he can’t pay all his bills.
“It’s impossible. Without a partner or a roommate, I don’t make it,” he said. “It’s very frustrating. We’re being forgotten.”
He joined several other people in Raleigh Tuesday to call on state lawmakers to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. It’s currently the same as the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour.
“Fifteen dollars (an hour) really is the minimum livable wage you can earn in the Triangle and here in North Carolina. It really deserves to be more over time,” said Sen. Floyd McKissick (D-Durham).
He backs a plan that would increase the minimum wage to $12 per hour in 2020 and then to $15 per hour in 2022.
The push for a $15 minimum wage in North Carolina is part of a nationwide campaign to increase the minimum wage.
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