Legislation would gradually increase the minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028.
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“The $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage is a starvation wage. It must be raised to a living wage—at least $17 an hour,” Sanders insisted. “In the year 2023, a job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality and record-breaking corporate profits, we can no longer tolerate millions of workers being unable to feed their families because they are working for totally inadequate wages.
They noted that one in eight workers in the United States earns wages that leave them in poverty, even when working full-time and year-round.
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