Outside the governor’s office, a line of demonstrators waved signs in favor of boosting the minimum wage, currently pegged to the federal $7.25 per hour minimum.
Viola Katusiime, a member of the Granite State Organizing Project, said she’s met many people in minority communities throughout the state who live with the consequences of low wages.
“They’re working two or three jobs, some people that I know in the communities that I work in,” she said. “They can’t put food on the table, they can’t pay rent, and that’s wrong.”
