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Contact: NCL Communications, (202) 835-3323,\u00a0media@nclnet.org<\/a><\/p>\n Washington, DC–The National Consumers League (NCL) applauds the introduction of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 to the U.S. Senate (S. 3453) by Senator Tom Harkin (IA) and the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 6211) by Congressman George Miller (CA-7).<\/p>\n \u201cThis vital piece of legislation will benefit low wage workers and be equally important to tipped workers,\u201d said Sally Greenberg, Executive Director of NCL.\u00a0 \u201cTipped workers, whose minimum wage is $2.13 an hour, have not had a raise since 1991 \u2013 21 years.\u201d<\/p>\n The Fair Minimum Wage Act would increase the federal minimum wage in three 85-cent steps over three years from $7.25 to $9.80 an hour.\u00a0 After reaching $9.80 the rate would be indexed to inflation each year thereafter.\u00a0 The federal tipped minimum wage would also receive a boost from its current $2.13 an hour. The bill would increase it in annual 85-cent installments until it reached 70 percent of the regular minimum wage.<\/p>\n \u201cNCL hails this critical bill which would help millions of working families make ends meet and help the economy flourish.\u00a0 We thank Senator Harkin and Congressman Miller for their leadership and look forward to seeing it pass into law,\u201d said Greenberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0National Consumers League<\/a>, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit\u00a0www.nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 24, 2012 Contact: NCL Communications, (202) 835-3323,\u00a0media@nclnet.org Washington, DC–The National Consumers League (NCL) applauds the introduction of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 to the U.S. Senate (S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}