Senate Can't Vote On $15 Minimum Wage, Parliamentarian Rules
3 years, 10 months ago

Senate Can't Vote On $15 Minimum Wage, Parliamentarian Rules

NPR  

Senate Can't Vote On $15 Minimum Wage, Parliamentarian Rules Enlarge this image toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP J. Scott Applewhite/AP Updated at 9:27 p.m. ET Senate Democrats will not be forced to confront an internal political battle over increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 following a decision by the primary keeper of Senate rules. The Senate parliamentarian ruled that a plan to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 does not fit the complicated rules that govern budget bills in the Senate. Sponsor Message "We are not going to give up the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 to help millions of struggling American workers and their families," Schumer said in a statement.

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It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25
5 months ago

It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25

NPR  

It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25 toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The most recent hike to the federal minimum wage occurred on July 24, 2009, back when former President Barack Obama was still in his first year in office and the Black Eyed Peas topped the Billboard charts. According to the Bureau …

Senate shoots down additional minimum wage increase
8 months, 1 week ago

Senate shoots down additional minimum wage increase

NL Times  

As expected, a majority in the Senate voted against an additional 1.2 percent increase in the minimum wage on Tuesday. The parties were concerned that a further increase in the minimum wage would be too big a burden on entrepreneurs and could, therefore, endanger jobs. The BBB also pointed to the high costs for the treasury - welfare benefits are …

Government pushes for minimum wage increase to keep pace with inflation
9 months ago

Government pushes for minimum wage increase to keep pace with inflation

ABC  

In short: The federal government has called for the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation to ensure real wages do not go backwards The federal government has called for the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation to ensure real wages do not go backwards The government says its tax cuts were designed to be in addition to a …

Pennsylvania House passes $15 minimum wage bill
1 year, 6 months ago

Pennsylvania House passes $15 minimum wage bill

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved a measure by a close vote Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2026, fulfilling a long-held party campaign plank that has run up against Republican legislative majorities for years. “If you had told me that it would be 14 years before this body would take another stab …

Measure to hike California’s minimum wage to $18 fails to qualify for November election
2 years, 5 months ago

Measure to hike California’s minimum wage to $18 fails to qualify for November election

LA Times  

California voters will not get a chance in November to vote on whether to increase the minimum wage to $18 an hour. The minimum wage initiative was not among seven measures that had enough valid signatures to qualify for the general election ballot by Thursday’s deadline, according to the California secretary of state. California’s minimum wage for all employers is …

Biden to sign $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden to sign $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers

The Independent  

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Biden To Sign $15 Minimum Wage Executive Order For Federal Contractors
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden To Sign $15 Minimum Wage Executive Order For Federal Contractors

Huff Post  

President Joe Biden is following through on a campaign pledge that’s expected to boost hourly pay for hundreds of thousands of workers. Senior administration officials said the president plans to sign an executive order Tuesday to increase the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts. In addition to instituting a more aggressive pay scale, the Biden order also phases out …

Opinion: Black women delivered for Biden. Now it’s time for Congress to deliver on a $15 minimum wage
3 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: Black women delivered for Biden. Now it’s time for Congress to deliver on a $15 minimum wage

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Rebecca Dixon is executive director of the National Employment Law Project. Black women helped deliver the presidency and the Senate to the Democrats, who ran on the promise of a $15 an hour minimum wage, among other things. Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour — and eliminating the abysmal $2.13 federal subminimum wage for tipped …

Ruling By Senate Parliamentarian Opens Up Potential Pathway For Democrats
3 years, 8 months ago

Ruling By Senate Parliamentarian Opens Up Potential Pathway For Democrats

NPR  

Ruling By Senate Parliamentarian Opens Up Potential Pathway For Democrats Enlarge this image toggle caption Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Getty Images Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Getty Images A new decision from the U.S. Senate's nonpartisan parliamentarian means Democrats could advance more of President Biden's agenda without the support of Republicans. The official's interpretation of Senate budget rules would allow the use of the reconciliation process more …

Thumbs Down: Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema evokes 'Maverick' McCain
3 years, 9 months ago

Thumbs Down: Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema evokes 'Maverick' McCain

Hindustan Times  

Democrat Senator from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema voted against the motion to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour on Friday. In a statement, Sinema said that she believes the minimum wage hike should be worked on as a separate issue and not with the Covid-19 relief bill. Senators in both parties have shown support for raising the federal …

Democratic divides sharpen even as Biden’s Covid-19 relief package passes the Senate
3 years, 9 months ago

Democratic divides sharpen even as Biden’s Covid-19 relief package passes the Senate

CNN  

CNN — The honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front was thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations ahead of Saturday’s vote to pass the White House’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. The party’s fragile internal peace, which Biden and his team have tended to with great care since he won the …

Progressives grapple with path forward as hopes of passing minimum wage fade
3 years, 9 months ago

Progressives grapple with path forward as hopes of passing minimum wage fade

CNN  

CNN — The Senate dealt progressives a blow they have been trying to prevent but knew was coming by voting down an amendment to include a $15 minimum wage in President Joe Biden’s Covid relief package. While its chances of passage were slim given the narrowly divided Senate, eight Democrats voted against the amendment, disappointing progressives who were hoping their …

Democrats tussle over minimum wage. Kamala Harris is caught in the middle
3 years, 9 months ago

Democrats tussle over minimum wage. Kamala Harris is caught in the middle

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to break a tie on a procedural vote as the Senate works on President Biden’s $1.9-trillion COVID -19 relief package on Thursday. William Barber II, one of the nation’s leading civil rights activists, defined the fight over raising the national minimum wage as Kamala Harris’ first fork-in-the-road moment since she became vice president. Harris’ defenders …

Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that was championed by President Joe Biden, the first step in providing another dose of aid to a weary nation as the measure now moves to a tense Senate. That chamber’s nonpartisan parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, said Senate rules require that a federal minimum wage increase would have to be …

Some Democrats want to fire Senate parliamentarian over minimum wage plans
3 years, 9 months ago

Some Democrats want to fire Senate parliamentarian over minimum wage plans

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As Democrats sought to use budget reconciliation to keep Republicans …

COVID-19 bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides
3 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Senate Democratic aides said. He said it shows the special procedure that Democrats are using to protect the …

Coronavirus bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides
3 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides

India Today  

The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Senate Democratic aides said. He said it shows the special procedure that Democrats are using to protect the relief bill …

Fight for $15: Wage hike likely blocked from Biden’s COVID relief
3 years, 9 months ago

Fight for $15: Wage hike likely blocked from Biden’s COVID relief

Al Jazeera  

In blow to progressives, Senate arbiter says fast-track process to pass signature legislation precludes the wage hike. A provision that would raise the United States minimum wage as part of President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation has been dealt a likely lethal blow. Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian and the nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, determined that …

Who Is The Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against A Minimum Wage Increase?
3 years, 9 months ago

Who Is The Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against A Minimum Wage Increase?

NPR  

Who Is The Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against A Minimum Wage Increase? She nixed a Democratic push to add a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage increase to President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, dubbed the American Rescue Plan. Dove angered the GOP majority, including Majority Leader Trent Lott, for rulings that made it difficult to push President George W. Bush's …

GOP senator rejects $15 minimum wage saying he once earned $6 an hour, or $23 with inflation
3 years, 9 months ago

GOP senator rejects $15 minimum wage saying he once earned $6 an hour, or $23 with inflation

The Independent  

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AOC calls Republicans’ $10 minimum wage pitch ‘legislated poverty
3 years, 10 months ago

AOC calls Republicans’ $10 minimum wage pitch ‘legislated poverty

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shot down a pitch from Republican lawmakers …

For Senate rules arbiter, minimum wage is latest minefield
3 years, 10 months ago

For Senate rules arbiter, minimum wage is latest minefield

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — She’s guided the Senate through two impeachment trials, vexed Democrats and Republicans alike with parliamentary opinions and helped rescue Electoral College certificates from a pro-Trump mob ransacking the Capitol. Any day, she’s expected to reveal if she thinks a federal minimum wage boost, progressives’ most prized plank in Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, should fall from the …

$15 minimum wage debate: Everything you need to know
3 years, 10 months ago

$15 minimum wage debate: Everything you need to know

CNN  

CNN — House Democrats have included a minimum wage hike in their latest Covid relief bill, although a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian means it can’t be included in the final package. Because so many states have their own, higher minimum wage, relatively few American workers make the federal minimum wage. More than half of states – 29 – have …

Minimum wage and inflation: These two charts show how much workers have fallen behind
3 years, 10 months ago

Minimum wage and inflation: These two charts show how much workers have fallen behind

CNN  

CNN — With Congress already battling over hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour, President Joe Biden likely raised a few eyebrows when he recently said that thefederal minimum wage would actually be $20 if it were indexed to inflation. While the President bungled two different statistics at a CNN town hall last week, the thrust of what he …

Biden, progressive Democrats heading toward clash over minimum wage and student loans
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden, progressive Democrats heading toward clash over minimum wage and student loans

LA Times  

The Biden administration and progressive Democrats are heading for their first big policy clash over whether to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour as part of the upcoming COVID-19 stimulus bill. But progressives view the minimum wage hike as an early indicator of Biden’s devotion to their causes, including whether he will one day support repealing …

Bernie Sanders urges Democrats to seize rare chance for $15 minimum wage
3 years, 10 months ago

Bernie Sanders urges Democrats to seize rare chance for $15 minimum wage

The Independent  

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Biden wage plan would lift 900,000 from poverty. There’s a catch
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden wage plan would lift 900,000 from poverty. There’s a catch

Al Jazeera  

United States President Joe Biden’s plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour would reduce poverty but also cut 1.4 million jobs, says the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. United States President Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by June 2025 would reduce employment by 1.4 million jobs that year and increase the …

Biden, Democrats hit gas on push for $15 minimum wage
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden, Democrats hit gas on push for $15 minimum wage

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden’s ability to bridge Washington’s partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Including the wage increase, Murkowski said, “complicates politically an initiative that …

‘Moral imperative’: Bernie Sanders and Democrats introduce $15 minimum wage bill
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Moral imperative’: Bernie Sanders and Democrats introduce $15 minimum wage bill

The Independent  

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Joe Biden wants to use coronavirus relief to raise federal minimum wage to $15
3 years, 11 months ago

Joe Biden wants to use coronavirus relief to raise federal minimum wage to $15

Salon  

President-elect Joe Biden called on Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 as part of his $1.9 billion coronavirus relief proposal unveiled on Thursday. Biden outlined his plan in a speech in Delaware, calling for Congress to approve $1,400 direct payments on top of the $600 checks in the last stimulus bill, extending of enhanced federal unemployment benefits …

New year, higher minimum wages in 24 states and 50 municipalities thanks to Fight for $15
3 years, 11 months ago

New year, higher minimum wages in 24 states and 50 municipalities thanks to Fight for $15

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. On New Year's Day, 20 states and 32 cities will increase their minimum wage, with the wage floor in 27 of those jurisdictions reaching or exceeding $15 per hour. "Despite the pandemic, the Fight for $15 movement continues to gain strength, with more cities and states than ever before raising their wage floors, …

'The pandemic has been an accelerator': Kamala Harris joins Bernie Sanders in campaign for minimum wage hike
4 years, 1 month ago

'The pandemic has been an accelerator': Kamala Harris joins Bernie Sanders in campaign for minimum wage hike

The Independent  

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