“Maine workers find themselves working at least full time but still living in or near poverty, while having to care for their families at the same time,” said Rep. Gina Melaragno, D-Auburn, who submitted An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage and Index It to the National Average Wage. “They have seen the prices of everything go up except the price of their undervalued labor, and they are tired of being thrown a small token raise every five or six years. They want meaningful, lasting change.”
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