Minimum Wage: 8 Tweets About Indiana's Minimum Wage

The minimum wage debate in Indiana heated up during the 2015 legislative session when a Senate Democrat introduced a bill to raise the state's minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour.

That is the rate to which President Barack Obama has asked all states to raise their minimum wages, in order to give the nation's lowest income earners a shot at earning even close to a living wage. The bill failed, however, and minimum wage earners in Indiana currently earn more than $2 less per hour than what is considered to be a living wage in the Hoosier State.

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Here are eight tweets about the minimum wage in Indiana:

40 hours at minimum wage in Indiana is $290. Thats 366 times less than an NFL practice squad player gets for 10 hours a week. CHERISH IT!!!!

— Fred Jackson Jr. (@minimart_bruh) July 10, 2015

@nwi_DanCarden Indiana's powerful deep-fried Twinkie-based economy is unstoppable at creating minimum wage jobs!

— Joseph S. Pete (@nwi_jsp) July 9, 2015

Indiana is on a fast-track to becoming a low-wage island where minimum wage workers are still paid a paltry $7.25: http://t.co/Uo7miSmspT

— IIWF (@INInstitute) June 11, 2015

Bernie, I know it's coming from a good place, but a $15 minimum wage wrecks the Indiana economy. #DemDebate

— Drew Farrington (@DrewFarrington) October 14, 2015

A national $15 minimum wage would be a job killer in Indiana.

— erik willey (@erikwill) September 25, 2015

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Why we need to #RaiseTheWage: Home care workers like Chalondias Smith of Indiana. 10 yrs on the job and she makes $10 http://t.co/fh6z4quPye

— HomeCare FightFor15 (@FF15HomeCare) September 24, 2015

@_DWillz yes the cost of living in Indiana is cheaper than DC but the minimum wage there is barely livable.

— gerabae (@MurderGeeWrote) September 3, 2015

I'm honestly outraged at how low minimum wage still is in Indiana. It's not livable, especially for someone in debt

— Tiny (@stoopss) August 8, 2015

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