Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. The bill would end the longest period without an increase since the minimum wage was established decades ago.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks outside of the West Wing at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2023.Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill on Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in 14 years and end the longest period that the wage hadn’t been increased since the minimum wage was established decades ago.would raise the current federal minimum wage by nearly $10 an hour, increasing it from the current level of $7.25 to $17 an hour over the next five years.
Lawmakers estimate that this would raise wages for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. labor force, or 28 million workers. “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 said“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,” he continued.
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