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Harris has made clear she would like to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour to combat income inequality and give millions of low-wage workers stability.
Scott Bessent, Trump's nominee for secretary of the treasury, said at a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday that he does not believe the current $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage should change.
Harris pledged to support a $15 federal minimum wage during her unsuccessful 2020 run for the White House, a standard position for Democrats in that year’s primary.
In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
Harris promised to raise the minimum wage and decried the current $7.25 an hour as 'poverty wages' with only two weeks left to go in the campaign. How the Democratic Party lost American workers ...
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [173]
Lujan Grisham sought the Democratic nomination for the House again in 2012 after Heinrich decided to run for the United States Senate. She won the nomination, defeating Marty Chavez and Eric Griego. [18] She defeated Janice Arnold-Jones, a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, in the November general election, [19] [20] 59% ...
That is almost seven times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and more than three times the California minimum wage of $16 per hour. “I know what worker productivity means,” Lee said ...