Right now 3.3 million workers in California are unable to make ends meet due to low wages. Someone working full-time can make less than $21,000 a year.

The minimum wage is too low for these families to meet their basic needs─ it’s unfair and it’s not right.

The costs of groceries, housing, and other basics have gone up for years, but the minimum wage has failed to keep up.

Raising the minimum wage would help over 3 million workers and families including 200,000 seniors, more than two million California children living in poverty, home healthcare workers, teachers’ aides, school janitors, day care providers, and many others.

The Fair Wage Act of 2016 will gradually raise the minimum wage $1 a year until it reaches $15 in 2021. Every year after that, the minimum wage will be adjusted to keep up with the cost of living.

Let’s keep hard working Californians out of poverty and support the Fair Wage Act of 2016!