This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace of freedom and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you.

A new study out of the general accounting office, the GAO.

This is arguably the least political branch of the executive branch, the GAO, found that millions of families

with a worker earning the federal minimum wage are living in poverty.

About 20% of families with a worker earning the federal minimum wage, 725 an hour,

are living in poverty.

Now that, keep in mind this most of those families have

somebody else in the family who's not working the minimum wage you know or

who you know or have additional you know, or who, you know, or have additional, you know, wages coming into the

household, while household income is just slightly, I think it's about 3% above where it was in

1980. Individual incomes are a little more than half

of what they were in 1980.

And it's really simple.

You have multiple people in houses going to work

and all this kind of stuff.

So Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation called the Raise the Wage Act of 2017.

It has 30 Senate co-sponsors and would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, but most importantly

index it to inflation.

And by the way, that hike would take place over about a seven-year period.

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