'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,' said SenSanders, who's leading the Raise the Wage Act with BobbyScott.
"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 , who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said in a statement."In the year 2023, a job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it."
Scott, ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, stressed that"raising the minimum wage is good for workers, good for business, and good for the economy. When we put money in the pockets of American workers, they will spend that money in their communities." "I've been in the Fight for $15 for a decade and I'm here to plead with Congress, the senators, people that vote, just anybody that'll hear our story," said Holmes, explaining her difficulty paying for rent, utilities, and food for her family."Workers like me, we need your help."phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers, teens, and people with disabilities, and tie future increases to median wage growth.
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