On Tuesday February the 18 thousands of fast-food workers will walk out of their jobs in hopes that their actions will help push thru a minimum wage raise of $15 dollars that essentially benefits millions of workers in general.

This will not be the first time that fast food workers have chosen to coalesce and strike for better wages, in fact fast food workers participated in a very effective similar effort about 9 years ago. That particular strike sparked other similar efforts all across America and in many countries, where workers sought similar wage raises.

Why is it at this time, necessary to increase the minimum wage again to $15.00 an hour?