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  Congress Finally Passes Minimum Wage Increase

  After months of delay and tying minimum wage legislation to controversial war
  and tax legislation, the federal minimum wage will finally begin to increase in July 2007.
  In coalition with Let Justice Roll, Interfaith Worker Justice, and hundreds of
  other organizations, the Mid-South Interfaith Network has been pressing
  Congress to pass a clean minimum wage increase.

  The minimum wage will be raised from $5.15 to $7.25 in three steps over the
  next 25 months. About 13 million workers are expected to benefit from the increase.
  After a decade without a raise, the value of today's federal
  minimum wage is lower than it was in 1950. Even with the increase, workers
  still have a lot of ground to make up. The minimum wage of 1968 had the
  purchasing power of $9.50.

  Minimum Wage for Southeastern states:
                                                      July 24, 2007        July 24, 2008        July 24, 2009
  TN, MS, KY, AL, SC, VA:    $5.85                        $6.55                     $7.25
  Arkansas:                              $6.25                        $6.55                     $7.25
  North Carolina:                      $6.15                        $6.55                     $7.25
  Florida:                                   $6.67                        $6.80                     $7.25                           

  Take action on the Living Wage Campaign

  Read Workers Interfaith Network opinion editorial in The Commercial Appeal on minimum wage raise

  Read about other Workers Interfaith Network victories