Democrats Unveil Plan For A $15 Minimum Wage

rss@dailykos.com (Laura Clawson), Daily Kos
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 8:53am

Congressional Democrats have unveiled their strongest minimum wage plan yet. And while Republicans will block this, it’s important to get the word out: this is what we’d be moving toward if Democrats were making the laws. Their legislation, dubbed the Raise the Wage Act, would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, increasing it from its current level of $7.25 an hour to $9.20 an hour once it’s passed and then adding about a dollar a year for seven years until it gets to $15.

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