Take Action: Raise the Wage!

Kentuckians believe in fair pay for a day’s work. But with the erosion of the minimum wage, hard workers aren’t able to make ends meet.

On Thursday, the House Labor and Industry Committee passed two bills that would boost the incomes of Kentucky’s low-wage and tipped workers. Those bills are now before the full House, waiting for a vote. That could happen as early as this afternoon. After the bills pass the House, the Senate must also give their approval.

House Bill 1, sponsored by Speaker Greg Stumbo, and House Bill 191, sponsored by Representative Will Coursey, would incrementally raise the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour by 2016, and the tipped-minimum wage from $2.13 to 70 percent of the full minimum wage.

Lifting the minimum wage to $10.10 would raise wages for one in four Kentucky workers. It would also benefit 22 percent of the state’s children who have a parent that would be affected, or 228,000 kids. Learn more from a new brief from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, and take action today to raise the wage!

Take Action

Please call the Legislative Message Line (1-800-372-7181) right now. Ask to leave the following message for your state representative and senator, and the Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee.

“Please vote yes for HB 1 and HB 191, to raise the wage for Kentucky’s low-wage and tipped-wage workers!”

The Legislative Message Line is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and until 6 p.m. on Fridays. Please try to call before 1:45 today, in case the bills go up for the House vote this afternoon.