Cori Princell
Several dozen people gathered at the State House in Concord Saturday to celebrate workers and immigrants, and push for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
At $7.25 an hour, New Hampshire matches the federal minimum wage. It’s the lowest minimum wage in New England.
Lidia Yen immigrated to the U.S. from South Sudan and works with Change for Concord and the American Friends Service Committee. She said she usually also has two or three other jobs, and works 55 hours a week.
“It’s impossible, literally impossible, for me to work just one job and be able to pay all of my bills so that’s why I have to work that much,” she said.