WASHINGTON (AP): Fast-food waitress Fawn Townsend of Raleigh, North Carolina, knows exactly what she is going to do if her salary goes up with Tuesday's increase in the federal minimum wage: start saving for a car so she can find a second job to make ends meet.
"My goal personally is to get a vehicle so I can independently go back and forth to work and maybe pick up extra work so I can have that extra income, because minimum wage is not cutting it,'' said Townsend, who is 24 and single.