date:Jul 28, 2014
' and lobbyists' salaries are way above the national norm.
Representatives Barbara Lee of California and Keith Ellison of Minnesota joined Ryan and Schakowsky in the week-long experiment.
Polls show that more than 60 percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, and several states have upped their own minimum wage in recent months, including Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland and Michigan.
Republicans, hoping to broaden their voter appeal, have produced their own poverty-fighting plan: