WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats hope they can convince the Senate parliamentarian to allow them to include an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour in the coronavirus relief
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West Virginia’s businesses need support during these difficult economic times, rather than new mandates from Washington, DC. Thank you for taking a strong stand against a federal $15 minimum wage.
A national $15 minimum wage and tipped wage would be devastating for West Virginia’s diners, retailers, and other small businesses not to mention their employees. Morgantown is not Manhattan, and Charleston is not Chicago. The minimum wages in these cities should not be the same, either.
West Virginia needs sensible, bipartisan solutions from Congress not one-size-fits-all laws that could hurt the people they are intended to help.
West Virginia Hospitality & Travel Association
Illinois small businesses waiting for federal aid will get state support in the form of $3 million allocated to bolster programs designed in helping navigate the ins-
Virginia businesses would see a tax break on expenses under a substitute version of a bill that passed the House of Delegates on Friday, but that break is smaller than the one that passed the Senate on Thursday.
Small business has suffered greatly during the COVID pandemic. Illness of employees and ordered closings have caused great stress and endangered the livelihoods of many.