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Millions of workers could benefit, but opponents says millions of other people could lose their jobs. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 9:03 PM EST January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON It s been more than a decade, but tens of millions of minimum wage workers could be getting a pay raise.
Now that Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, there s a new push on Capitol Hill to hike the federal minimum wage.
Under the Raise the Wage Act, the national minimum wage would increase from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025.
The last time it went up? Nearly 11-and-a-half years ago, in July of 2009.