(TRENTON) — Moving ahead on ensuring economic fairness for New Jersey’s working families, Speaker Craig Coughlin will join Governor Phil Murphy and Senate President Steve Sweeney at Ocean Bay Diner in Sayreville at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

The concerted, ongoing effort by the Legislature and the administration to gradually and fairly raise the minimum wage aims to provide access and opportunity for residents currently earning an income far below the cost of living in the state.

“It’s time to even the playing field for residents working multiple jobs and struggling to pay their bills and provide for their families,” said Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Middlesex). “Earning a more livable wage is critical to solving the more pervasive concerns of poverty and hunger around our state. Continuing our discussion in places where raising the minimum wage would make a real difference is important to ensuring New Jersey stays on the right economic track.”

The Assembly plans to vote on the minimum wage legislation Thursday, January 31.