7 Days @ Minimum Wage brings you 7 real people with 7 real stories of living on the minimum wage, hosted by Roseanne Barr and sponsored by the AFL-CIO and ACORN. On Day 1, Denver couple Paul Valdez and Susan Windham tell their story of living on the minimum wage. Paul receives $35 for a full day’s labor in back-breaking construction work.

We are ACORN, the AFL-CIO, and ROSEANNE and what we have in common is a belief that we’re all in this together, that every citizen of our country deserves a good job and decent pay and a chance to lift their families into the middle class.

ACORN is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, our country’s oldest and largest grassroots organization of low and moderate income people, with members in more than 100 cities.

The AFL-CIO is the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization, America’s largest labor federation, with 51 affiliated unions representing more than 10 million

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This is about helping average working people do a job Congress has refused to do for the past 10 years: raising the minimum wage and giving 15 million hard-working people a chance to live a decent life. The federal minimum wage is stuck at $5.15 an hour and since the last increase, it’s purchasing power has actually decreased 20 percent, leaving hundreds of thousands of families scrambling just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Working with a grass roots alliance of labor, church, community and civil rights organizations, workers and their families have been

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