LINCOLN- The group Raise the Wage Nebraska has long fought to increase the minimum wage in the state. Last week, the group released an Economic Policy Institute analysis that suggested that raising Nebraska's minimum wage to $15 would benefit around 150,000 workers in the state.

According to the report, around 60% of those 150,000 workers are women, 43% have attended college, and another 40% live in rural Nebraska. A little over 20% also have children.

Kim Baker, a Lincoln citizen, stated, "I have been a hard-working employee in customer service and claims management since I was 17. I've done everything right, and I have never made more than $15 an hour. After 20 years, I should be able to live independently with my son but the cost of housing alone makes that impossible on my current wage."

Kate Wolfe, campaign manager for Raise the Wage Nebraska, shared a similar sentiment, stating that "working families can't make ends meet because wages haven't kept up and parents can't afford to pay rent and put food on the table at today's minimum wage of $9 an hour."

Raise the Wage Nebraska collected over 97,000 signatures to place a minimum wage increase initiative on the ballot, so it will be for Nebraskans to decide come November 8th.

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