claim: raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million americans out of poverty."
author: alison lundergan grimes
evidence_1: jan 2, 2014 ... raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could help lift nearly ... to  $10.10 an hour, it would reduce the poverty rate among americans ... that would  bring about 4.6 million people out of poverty directly and ... over how much a  minimum wage increase affects the poverty rate, according to baker.
evidence_2: jan 3, 2014 ... raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could lift ... that wage level  “would reduce the poverty rate among americans ... that a $10.10 wage would lift  nearly 6 million people out of poverty. ... it would bring it in line with where it  would be if it had kept up with inflation over the past half century.
evidence_3: dec 19, 2013 ... annual minimum-wage earnings and poverty line for families of two to four, ...  over the past 45 years, the u.s. economy has vastly expanded, and ... increasing  the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016 would lift ... with the initial  increase to $8.20 per hour, 7.0 million workers would be directly affected.
evidence_4: jan 3, 2014 ... study: $10.10 per hour would lift 5 million from poverty. comment; share; tweet;  stumble; email. in the battle over america's widening income gap, nothing may  be more ... raising the wage wouldn't actually help lift many americans out of  poverty, ... law of the new year: 13 states to raise minimum wage.
evidence_5: jun 20, 2014 ... raising the minimum wage would equally help americans who live in  republican .... seattle raises minimum wage to $15/hour 01:23 ... to $10.10  would lift more than 5 million americans out of poverty and help 14 million ... the  sad irony of the standoff in congress over raising the minimum wage is that ...