South Carolina, a "right to work" State, an oxymoronic phrase if there ever was one, when "right to work" means right to work for the least amount your Employer deigns to offer you. NO benefits, NO Vacation or Sick Time and NO advocacy if the Boss decides to Terminate you without cause. If anyone out there agrees with me, sign this Petition to call for our State Legislators to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour! Why is it, State or Federal, they NEVER miss an opportunity to raise their OWN Wages and beneifts? If the minimim Wage had kept up with inflation, it would be over $20.00 per hour by now. The Economy would be BOOMING, and everyone would have a grin on his or her face. WHY don't they like smiling faces in this State anymore?

Raising Alabama's minimum wage will help hundreds of thousands of families struggling in poverty wage. Alabama can do better. Let's raise the wage to $10.10!

Is necessary to live and provide a better future to our children there for a brighter future for our country.

The purpose of minimum wage is to legally require that an individual gets paid enough to afford the cost of living off 40 hours of work. According the the US Census Bureau, Utah's per person average income for 2012 (the most recent year with data) was only $23,794, over $4,000 below the national average! With the rising cost of living for everyone and an increase in tuition of 5.6% this year for secondary education, minimum wage in Utah no longer fulfills these requirements and must be raised. Basic necessities in modern society such as food, water, a basic cell phone for work, transportation, education, and a roof over one's head become harder to obtain with each passing year. I propose that raising minimum wage to $10.10 would satisfy the cost of living for individuals in Utah and give the state the financial boost it needs in light of its recent drop in tourism

This petition concerns both a fair wage for honest work and increasing the value of food stamps and welfare, so working single Mothers, et al, can feed their children and live above the poverty level in the richest nation on the planet. There's no excuse for a Christian nation to force honest workers into poverty. What would Jesus say?

Could you live on $7.90 an hour? That is $316. for a 40 hour week. Deducted from that will be Social Security and any taxes and other dues or company expenses. Yet many thousands of Arizonans are asked to get by on this minimum wage. It is time for our Governor, Senate and Legislature to raise the minimum wage to at least $10.50 an hour (still to low). You can do you part by signing this petition

If you increase minimum wage. You decrease the need for public assistance like food stamps

I have MS and am disabled and i yam trying to help the working.

Having struggled for years to "make ends meet" (they never did!), I know how hard it is to earn only minimum wages. The whole state benefits when people can earn more, and social service/public aid can consequently be reduced.

I feel sorry for the people in Missouri that is trying to raise a family and unable to exist on the current minimum wage. In the meantime, many companies and corporations are exploring these employees for their own enormous profits. We should all care for one another!

I am starting a petition to try and help people who are on minimum wage salaries earn some sort of a living. It's pretty sad when we have people out there in the work force who work hard every day not being to even make a livable wage for their toil. This needs to be fixed NOW!

This is the fricking South and someone should tell the GOP to wake up to the new ways the country is changing.