Living Wage For All — One Job Should Be Enough
Living Wage For All is a coalition of more than 100 organizations winning a minimum wage that meets the real cost of living — for every worker, with no exceptions. Whatever our work, too many of us are working full time and still can't afford to live. About half of America earns less than $25 an hour, while the federal minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009 and the tipped subminimum wage at $2.13 since 1991.
The Living Wage For All Act
The Living Wage For All Act would raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour and end every subminimum wage for tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities. It was introduced in the U.S. House as H.R. 8555 on April 28, 2026, by Rep. Delia Ramirez with 30 cosponsors, and in the U.S. Senate on June 25, 2026, by Sen. Chris Murphy with Sens. Blumenthal, Kim, and Wyden. Read about the federal bill and call your members of Congress.
What a living wage is
A living wage is what a worker needs to afford housing, food, healthcare, and transportation. By MIT's Living Wage Calculator, no place in the United States has a living wage below $25 an hour for a single adult. See the case for a $25 living wage.
Where we're winning
The coalition is organizing in 13 places across the country for living wages of $25 to $30 an hour:
- New York — $30
- Alameda County, California — $30
- Los Angeles, California — $30
- Washington, D.C. — $25
- Maryland — $25
- Illinois — $27
- Michigan — $25
- Pennsylvania — $25
- Massachusetts — $25
- Connecticut — $25
- Rhode Island
- Wisconsin
- Nome, Alaska — $25
- Hawai'i — $30
Take action
Call your members of Congress · Endorse the bill as an organization · Join the movement · Press and coverage