The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

The real minimum wage is zero.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.