This month, Democrats in the Legislature successfully beat back multiple attempts to virtually eliminate the state minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of workers. Arkansas overwhelmingly voted to raise the minimum wage in 2018, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans in the Arkansas Legislature from trying to undo the will of the people.

Arkansans know the value of hard work and that families ought to be able to support themselves. That’s why a real minimum wage is so important.

Voters in every single one of Arkansas’s 75 counties voted to raise the minimum wage in 2018. The will of voters must be respected inside the state Capitol building. Arkansans did not send their legislators to Little Rock to take money out of the pockets.

Arkansas Democrats, led by Chairman Michael John Gray, led the charge to defend the Arkansas minimum wage.

34 Republican lawmakers voted to lower the minimum wage for minors.

Barker, Sonia(R); Beck, Rick(R); Bentley, Mary(R); Boyd, Justin(R); Bragg, Ken(R); Breaux, Harlan(R); Brown, Karilyn(R); Capp, Sarah(R); Cavenaugh, Frances(R); Christiansen, Craig(R); Coleman, Bruce(R); Davis, Andy(R); Fite, Lanny(R); Gates, Mickey(R); Gray, Michelle(R); Hodges, Grant(R); Holcomb, Mike(R); Hollowell, Steve(R); Johnson, Lee(R); Kelly, Jasen(R); Ladyman, Jack(R); Lundstrum, Robin(R); Lynch, Roger(R); McCollum, Austin(R); Meeks, Stephen(R); Miller, Josh(R); Petty, Rebecca(R); Richmond, Marcus(R); Smith, Brandt(R); Sorvillo, Jim(R); Sullivan, Dan(R); Tosh, Dwight(R); Wing, Carlton(R); Womack, Richard(R)

29 Republican lawmakers voted to lower the minimum wage in 85 percent of Arkansas businesses (those with less than 25 employees).

Barker, Sonia(R); Bentley, Mary(R); Bragg, Ken(R); Brown, Karilyn(R); Capp, Sarah(R); Coleman, Bruce(R); Davis, Andy(R); Gates, Mickey(R); Gray, Michelle(R); Hodges, Grant(R); Johnson, Lee(R); Kelly, Jasen(R); Ladyman, Jack(R); Lowery, Mark(R); Lundstrum, Robin(R); Lynch, Roger(R); McCollum, Austin(R); Meeks, Stephen(R); Miller, Josh(R); Payton, John(R); Petty, Rebecca(R); Pilkington, Aaron(R); Richmond, Marcus(R); Rye, Johnny(R); Smith, Brandt(R); Sorvillo, Jim(R); Sullivan, Dan(R); Tosh, Dwight(R); Womack, Richard(R)