minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania's and the national minimum wage are
unchanged since 2009 at $7.25 per hour; and
WHEREAS, The average minimum pay worker is 36 years old,
works full time and earns half of the family total income; and
WHEREAS, Approximately 56% of minimum wage workers are women,
89% are over the age of 20 and 37% are over the age of 40; and
WHEREAS, Twenty-eight percent of the women who work for
minimum wage have children; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania should act expeditiously to increase
its minimum wage and give hundreds of thousands of
Pennsylvanians a pay raise; and
WHEREAS, Increasing the minimum wage by $1.75 increases
earnings for 400,000 Pennsylvanians by an estimated $840 million
per year; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania honor Amazon for increasing its
minimum wage to $15 per hour; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the General Assembly follow Amazon and
Governor Wolf and swiftly enact legislation increasing the
minimum wage; and be it further
RESOLVED, That all companies make a good-faith effort to
increase their minimum wage to $15 per hour; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
the corporate headquarters of Amazon in Seattle, Washington.
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