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Democrats introduce bill to raise minimum wage to $9.80

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More than 100 House Democrats introduced a bill Thursday to raise the minimum wage. Rep. George Miller’s proposed legislation would raise the minimum wage to $9.80 over three years, 85 cents per year, then link it to inflation, so that raising it wouldn’t have to be a giant political fight every few years. Tipped workers, who haven’t seen their $2.13 minimum wage increased since 1991, would get 85 cent raises until the tipped minimum was 70 percent of the full minimum wage.

If you work at the current minimum wage for 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, with no time off at all, the $15,080 you earn puts you $50 below the poverty threshold for a family of two. That—and the fact that many minimum wage employers keep workers at part-time levels—is why so many working people are forced to rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid and other aid programs. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that if you work, you shouldn’t be poor. But to today’s Republican Party, that counts as a radical statement.

H/T: Laura Clawson at Daily Kos Labor

Something else the GOP will probably filibuster.

It will be interesting to see of this goes through, it’s necessary but given my current job it’s going to be something I will hear about to an annoying level. We will see.

I would like to see this go through , particularly the tipped worker minimum wage.

this would help so many people, pleasepleaseplease

• #minimum wage
• #please happen please

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