{"article":{"id":106287,"heading":"$5.15 IS NOT ENOUGH!!! It's Time to Raise the Minimum Wage!","author":"Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash","created":"2004-03-27 21:32:50","modified":"2005-08-15 02:53:04","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:53:04","article":"<br>  <br> Building Bridges: <br>  <br> Your Community &amp; Labor Report &ndash; National Edition <br>  <br> Produced &amp; Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg &amp; Ken Nash <br>  <br> Presents <br><br> $5.15 IS NOT ENOUGH!!! <br>  <br>              IT'S TIME TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE ! <br>  <br>          <br>  <br>           <br>  <br>     Did you know that the amount earned in a minimum wage job in one year amounts to a measly $10,600, and the amount that a family of 3 needs to live for a year adds up to more than $30,000? <br><br>           Recently NY Jobs with Justice, and the NY Unemployment Project held a packed community forum to call on Republican N.Y. State Senator Olga Mendez to support a raise in the minimum wage! Senator Mendez was invited to speak along  <br>  <br> with community and labor organizers and minimum wage workers. When she didn&rsquo;t show up...  <br>  <br> they marched to her house on Fifth Avenue to protest! <br><br> ************************************************************Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C  <br>  <br> Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and streamed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2600.com\/offthehook\/hot2.ram\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.2600.com\/offthehook\/hot2.ram<\/a> <br>  <br>  for more information email <a href=\"mailto:knash@igc.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">knash@igc.org<\/a> <br>  <br> **************************************************************************************************************** <br>  <br> \n","contact":"knash@igc.org","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"audio\/mpeg","summary":"BUILDING BRIDGES: YOUR COMMUNITY AND LABOR REPORT BRINGS YOU THIS 28 MINUTE RADIO PROGRAM. \r\n\r\nTO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA LINK ","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/minwgntl.mp3","filesize":"4.8 mebibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/03\/106287.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":106333,"heading":"Raise it to $15.15!","article":"Raise it as high as you like! Then you're fired.\r\n\r\nRosenberg? Didn't we execute you in the 50's?","author":"Ignat","parent_id":106287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-03-28 15:16:26","modified":"2004-03-28 15:16:26","fileurl":""},{"id":106347,"heading":"fresca","article":"&quot;Did you know that the amount earned in a minimum wage job in one year amounts to a measly $10,600, and the amount that a family of 3 needs to live for a year adds up to more than $30,000? &quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nSo what? Do the math.\r\n\r\nIf your stat is correct than it means that a single person needs $10,000 to live on a year. So minimum wage will actually yield extra money.\r\n\r\nBottom line is that if you can't afford to provide for a family...DON'T HAVE ONE!\r\n\r\n","author":"Do the math","parent_id":106287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-03-28 17:21:27","modified":"2004-03-28 17:21:27","fileurl":""}]}