When
Bayard Rustin addressed the March on Washington in 1963 he said this:
“We demand that there be an increase in the national minimum wage so
that men may live in dignity.” The crowd cheered in response.
But after
fifty years of commemorating that march, after thousands of reverent
re-readings of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, that dream remains
deferred - and worse.
The minimum wage is lower today than it was in 1963 ... the minimum wage, when adjusted for inflation, was $8.37, a dollar and twelve cents higher than today’s rate of $7.25.
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