Dem Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Increase Minimum Wage To $15 by 2025
Democratic lawmakers are coming together to introduce a bill to increase the federal minimum wage in the U.S. to $15 per hour by 2025. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has pushed for increasing the minimum wage during…
Democratic lawmakers are coming together to introduce a bill to increase the federal minimum wage in the U.S. to $15 per hour by 2025.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has pushed for increasing the minimum wage during his runs for president in 2016 and 2020, is among the other lawmakers introducing the legislation, “Raise the Wage Act of 2021.” They are seeking to gradually raise the federal minimum wage.
“Let’s be clear. The $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage is a starvation wage,” Sanders said in a statement.
The Vermont senator added:
“No person in America can make it on $8, $10, or $12 an hour. In the United States of America a job must lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. We can no longer tolerate millions of workers not being able to afford to feed their families or pay the rent. The time for talk is over. No more excuses.”
The minimum wage has not been increased since 2009, according to The Guardian.
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The effort is also by Reps. Robert “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Stephanie Murphy (D- Fl.), and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
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