Raising my wage would help us afford the basics of life, such as food and rent. We are currently on WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) and we have been since I found out I was pregnant in early 2015. We have also had to rent out one of our two bedrooms just to make rent each month. Although we want nothing more than to be contributing members of the Durango community, we are saving up so that we can move to find higher wages.

When you consider Amendment 70 to raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020, please think of hard-working Coloradans like us. It’s smart and fair to pay hardworking people a living wage.

Hollie Wall Dalenberg

Durango