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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.
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Kevin and Zoey Martin stand outside their apartment on Kennard Road in Manchester, NH. Courtesy Photo
MANCHESTER, NH – Last Spring Zoey Martin looked out her window and saw surveyors taking measurements in her Kennard Road apartment complex and she knew that was not a good sign.
The past year was not a good one for Martin. Her husband was hospitalized five times during the year, she aggravated an old injury and had to stop working in September, and the cherry on top was a notice from her landlord that her rent was going up from $1,274 a month to $1,510.