1. United States
2. Miss.
3. Letter

I am a Mississippi resident writing to demand that you take immediate legislative action to establish a fair state minimum wage. Mississippi remains one of only five states without its own minimum wage law, forcing local workers to survive on the outdated 2009 federal baseline of s even dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. This current rate amounts to just fifteen thousand dollars a year for full-time work, which is well below the poverty line and functionally impossible to live on given today's costs. atch their economic realities. Furthermore, the state's existing preemption law completely strips our local cities and counties of the right to set higher, localized wage floors that m I urge you to champion working families by supporting legislation to repeal the municipal wage-hike ban and implement a livable state minimum wage. It is time for Mississippi leadership to stop protecting stagnant baselines and give its workforce a genuine chance at economic survival.