Marsha Blackburn stated...

"I want to see people make more money, but, I do not support minimum wage."

Okay, than how are people going to make more money? 

I don't care about personal hero rolls and status as some kind of victory over adversity. Every American is their own personal hero. They all work to make their lives better, I don't care if Marsha was captain of her bowling team.

I want to know what she is going to do to encourage increases in wages to elevate people out of poverty and into the struggling American Dream.

How is Marsha Blackburn going to stop blaming the impoverished as lazy Americans, less than American than she has been and is today, to actually provide a PATH to financial success other than working two and three jobs. Because working two to three jobs at minimum wage with a minimum of a 60 hour work week provides a whopping gross income of $435.00. That is POVERTY level wages. There is no finding their way out of poverty if all their skills are not improved or the education expanded. Working 60+ hours per week allows no time for quality of life or quality parenting. 

So, what is Marsha Blackburn's IDEAS to provide a path out of poverty for this growing population within our society?

Voting for a higher minimum wage of $9.00 per hour is a no brainer. The states highlighted in green already have higher minimum wage requirements in their state laws. The states highlighted in blue rely on the federal laws for their minimum wage determination at the state level. The yellow highlighted states don't provide for a law governing minimum wage and default to the federal level. The other red highlighted states and orange territories have laws with a variety of lower than federal law minimum wages in their laws. The people there would have to provide a lawsuit AND/OR a union to have their wages elevated to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

A minimum wage of $9.00 per hour for a 60 hour work week that allows little time to actually change the trajectory of a life through new skills or education,  would provide a gross weekly income of $540.00 per week. That is an increase of $105.00 per week. That raises citizens to at least $28,000 per year. It would bring them closer to success, especially if there were two working adults in the household. That means they will start to disqualify for food stamps and other subsidies.

Marsha Blackburn is promoting the poverty levels that enforce the subsidies to the average family and exploitative profits of companies well able to do better.

At Walmart, one of the most profitable companies of Wall Street, pays their Guest Service Team Member in at least 216 stores an average of $8.46 per hour with a range of $7.00 to $12.00. Some of these employees aren't even paid the current minimum wage. Walmart makes profits on the backs of the American citizen, both through underpaid labor, insufficient benefits and social subsidies to their employees.

The same company, Walmart, pays their cashiers an average of $8.53 per hour. That is the case in 157 Walmart stores with a range of $6.00 to $13.00 per hour. 

This is outrageous and what Marsha Blackburn is promoting is more Wall Street Welfare. She is proposing to grow the National Debt to benefit Wall Street. She is talking out of both sides of her mouth for the sake of an under educated electorate about their own rights and best interests.

Marsha Blackburn isn't half the American of any of her constituents. She needs to do far, far better than this.

Most employers are paying nearly $9.00 per hour now and it will never be that much of a burden to increase the wage to a sustainable level to benefit most Americans.