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Republican Governors Are Preventing You From Getting A Raise - The Ring Of Fire
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4:19Now PlayingA lot of states around the country have decided that they're tired of waiting for the federal government to enact a raise in the minimum wage on the federal level. So they've taken upon themselves to pass minimum wage increases. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
---Antoin Adams likes working, and working hard. In his job at a KFC in Birmingham, Alabama, he’s responsible for cooking food, cleaning the restaurant, and keeping track of the inventory. But all that hard work has yet to even nudge his boss to discuss a raise from his current pay: $7.25 an hour, or the very least a worker in America can be paid.
“I don’t have a problem with working, I love working,” he said. “But I want to feel like I’m working for something… I know how hard I work and I work too hard for $7.25.”
Making minimum wage is rough on him. He has rent, utilities, and car payments to worry about. Adams says he doesn’t get food stamps, so he has to buy all of his groceries on that wage too. “On $7.25, you can’t really pay your rent or anything or utilities,” he said. “It’s hard.” ---
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