Bare Minimum: Why We Need to Raise Wages for America’s Lowest-Paid Families

“Bare Minimum: Why We Need to Raise Wages for America’s Lowest-Paid Families” is a report on working people and their struggle to make a living when paid the federal minimum wage or tips. It makes a case for raising wages that is grounded in history, economics, and movements across the country, but particularly in the lived experience of our nation’s lowest-paid working people. The report includes the stories of eight working people from across the country trying to make ends meet on incomes just above the federal minimum wage.