Bruised after a crushing defeat in November, Democrats are uniting under a cause they believe could pay off in 2018: the $15 federal minimum wage. On Thursday, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024, reflecting local laws that have raised the minimum wage in 19 states earlier this year.
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since taking effect in July 2009, an eight-year stagnation that evinces the broader trend of stalled wages across the U.S. economy.
The Raise the Wage Act would be the biggest federal minimum wage increase in history, and it would additionally peg future minimum wage increases to inflation. The bill would also eliminate the tipped minimum wage, the separate minimum standard of $2.13 an hour that is paid to workers, like those in restaurants or bars, who earn at least $30 a month in tips.
Though the legislation has virtually no chance of getting through a GOP-controlled Congress and White House, it marks a sharp turn to the left for Democratic economic policies. It also reflects the lasting impact of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ upstart 2016 campaign for the presidency, and the activism of groups like the nationwide Fight for $15 movement.
IT ALSO ELIMINATES THE TIPPED MINIMUM WAGE (CURRENTLY $2.15 AN HOUR) Please support this
THIS is how you make a robust economy. Get the money into the pockets of the people who are going to SPEND it. How much more business would businesses be doing if more people could afford to pay for things beyond the bare necessities needed to keep themselves alive? …Also, with this wage hike, how many more people could afford to keep themselves alive, period?
Sorry, I always knew that tipped servers earn a pitiful wage, but TWO FUCKING DOLLARS AN HOUR???? ARE YOU SHITTING ME???
Democrats just united on a $15-an-hour minimum wage
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