The #FightFor15 impacts us all.

The #FightFor15 is a fight that every worker should support even if you’re making well above $15/hr.

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The federal minimum wage hasn’t risen in over a decade. I, like millions of others, entered the workforce during this period. While working my retail and food-service jobs, what stood out to me the most was that my co-workers weren’t just teenagers and college students like me, but people in their thirties and up. Many of my older co-workers had spouses, children, or even an elderly relative that they had to provide for. Every time I got paid, I’d think to myself, “how are they providing for their families on this?”. I then learned that many of them were only my co-workers because that was their second or third job. Many of these people were teachers, which disillusioned me because I was in school to be a teacher myself. Was I studying my life away and taking on a lifetime’s worth of debt just to not be economically secure?

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I’m not the only one that’s fighting for a $15 an hour minimum wage. Workers nationwide are joining the #FightFor15 movement and organizing their workplaces.

These life experiences are why I support all workers in their fight for a living wage even though I’m now fortunate enough to have secured a living wage. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees. As food-service workers mobilized to strike for…