To: Governor Roy Cooper
Governor McCory:Raise North Carolina Minimum Wage
With the rising cost of living, especially in NC's more coastal areas. It is only the right thing to do to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour.
Why is this important?
I live in North Carolina, Castle Hayne growing up and hearing stories about how if I did well in school and got a job I could move out, start a family, buy a car... but I find myself instead being unable to even afford Car Insurance. My mother has to drive me everywhere as I just don't have the money for car insurance which is legally required for a license. I go hungry many nights because there isn't enough to go grocery shopping with. I am a transwoman who needs GRS that Medicaid won't pay to treat, but I can't get the money to save up for the surgery.
I'm tired of living like I'm a third world country, and I know others are too. I see long lines at the food bank from people blaming themselves when the real problem is in the economy. I am an Office Aide working for a State Funded Disability Agency where I make minimum wage at less than twenty hours a week. I work with our disabled, I make new filing systems, I type more than 50 WPM. But it doesn't pay me a living wage. Most of it goes to gas to get to work. It's insane.
I think it's time we demanded a higher wage. I'm tired of being hungry.
I'm tired of living like I'm a third world country, and I know others are too. I see long lines at the food bank from people blaming themselves when the real problem is in the economy. I am an Office Aide working for a State Funded Disability Agency where I make minimum wage at less than twenty hours a week. I work with our disabled, I make new filing systems, I type more than 50 WPM. But it doesn't pay me a living wage. Most of it goes to gas to get to work. It's insane.
I think it's time we demanded a higher wage. I'm tired of being hungry.