Constituents Rally for Minimum Wage Hike

On Tuesday, dozens of Congressman C.W. Bill Young's constituents rallied outside the Congressman’s Seminole office to ask him to support a raise in the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

The constituents then marched into the Congressman’s office to deliver more than 1000 petitions asking him to support raising the minimum wage, according to a news release. The current minimum wage is $7.67.

Constituent Karl Herrman, stood up for the benefits that raising the minimum wage brings to the economy. Herman, according to a news release, said that his father used to be a state senator in Washington state who helped establish their first state minimum wage in the 1950s, and it helped business grow

“Our economy only works when working people have enough income to afford to purchase the products in the economy," he said in a news release. "If people can’t afford to buy anything, then businesses won’t be successful.”

Sam Ballance, a former minimum wage worker, was there to support those who are currently struggling at low wage jobs.

"For a long period of my life, I had to live off minimum wage, and know how easy it is to fall into a financial hole which is almost impossible to get out of," Ballance said in a Florida Consumer Action Network news release. "Raising the minimum wage will allow people who are on it now to have it better than I did."

For many protesters Tuesday, it was their third time . So far to sit down and meet with the congressman have been unsuccessful.