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Joe Manchin s $11 Minimum Wage More Popular Than Biden s $15 Among Democrats and Republicans
On 3/3/21 at 11:26 AM EST
While progressive Democrats continue to push for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $15 per hour, new polling shows that Senator Joe Manchin s suggestion of a more modest increase to $11 is more popular with both Republicans and Democrats.
President Joe Biden and Democrats campaigned on raising the federal minimum wage to $15, and House Democrats included the wage hike in their version of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. However, the wage hike looks unlikely to survive in the Senate s version of the bill, as that chamber s parliamentarian ruled it could not be passed through the budget reconciliation process. Meanwhile, GOP Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Tom Cotton of Arkansas have put forward a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour close to what Manchin has suggested.
Congressman Lou Correa (CA-46) voted to pass the
American Rescue Act, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that provides immediate assistance to millions of American families. In addition to $1,400 cash stimulus payments, the
American Rescue Act provides families with up to $300 a month in cash per child by expanding
Child Tax Credit for 27 million children. It gives everyday workers up to $6,728 in tax breaks by expanding the
Earned Income Tax Credit for 15 million workers. The legislation helps 40 million Americans by investing billions of dollars in housing, rental, and nutrition assistance. And it expands access to safe and reliable child care and affordable health care and extends unemployment insurance for 18 million families.
Mar. 2—WASHINGTON — Michigan Democrats in Congress are pressing the Senate to overrule the parliamentarian who advised against including a $15 minimum wage increase as part of the latest COVID-19 relief package. The House lawmakers argue that Democrats should disregard the parliamentarian's ruling and maintain the wage proposal in the $1.9 trillion legislation, which the Democratic-led House .