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Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum WageBy NOAM SCHEIBERAPRIL at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/economy/democrats-are-rallying-around-12-wage-floor.html?_r=0
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WASHINGTON Democrats in Congress are uniting around a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour.
Within the next several days, Senator Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that deals with labor issues, plans to introduce a bill to increase the minimum wage, in steps, from its current level of $7.25 to $12 by 2020.
The measure has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled Congress in the near future, but it is the latest indication of Democrats rising ambitions for lifting the wage floor, an issue with considerable popular support in an era of increasing income inequality. The party is determined to elevate the issue in next years congressional and presidential elections.
Senator Murrays forthcoming bill, and a companion measure by Representative Robert C. Scott in the House, have considerable support within the party, according to congressional aides. Among the 15 to 20 Democrats who already back the effort in the Senate are Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, and Charles E. Schumer of New York, his chosen successor.
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fadedrose
(10,044 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Good gracious that will equal 7.25 that it is now. I am sorry but I cannot give the high five for this. They need to raise it to 15 dollars in January 2016 and a dollar every year for a long time.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Have to pre-compromise before even getting out the gate, for fear that people who never vote for them won't vote for them.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)to get up to $12? It should be $15 but $12 can be helpful.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)With our economic future?
neighbor tim
(45 posts)That's my kinda party! Democratic Party! Oh yeah!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Part of the 2016 campaign maybe. Hopefully they will follow through and Hillary will join in.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)joshcryer
(62,270 posts)I don't know why you guys keep bringing up that it can't pass. Of course it can't pass, the party isn't in power.
But you know damn sure that when it doesn't pass it'll make great fodder for the 2016 campaign ads. Any Republican voting against it and who is up for reelection will be quite in a bind.
So it's still symbolic and it can do some good because if we gain back power because we tried to pass it now, we will be able to pass it then.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)just don't have a clue what the people need.
madville
(7,410 posts)it's only for jobs the TPP displaces so it won't apply to any actual jobs.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Sometimes you have to know how to play the game.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)12 does not do it
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)It's not kids working for gas money any more. The minimum wage needs to be a living wage.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Stop passing the buck forward when inflation will make that raise meaningless anyway.
Make it $15 and make it NOW.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)anyway.
Our party is such a joke.