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Union activist Terrence Wise recalls being laughed at when he began pushing for a national $15 per hour minimum wage almost a decade ago. Nearly a year into the

WASHINGTON (AP) — Union activist Terrence Wise recalls being laughed at when he began...

The latest: Is the president undermining the push to raise the minimum wage? Plus, COVID-19 stimulus talks push forward. Get caught up.

President Joe Biden campaigned on raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and attached a proposal doing just that to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief bill. But that provision appears in jeopardy. And Biden himself may be a big reason why.

The president has seemingly undermined the push to raise the minimum wage by acknowledging its dim prospects in Congress, where it faces political opposition and procedural hurdles.

USA TODAY Fast-food workers across the country are planning to strike Friday to keep pressure on the incoming Biden administration and  the restaurant giants they work for to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Employees of McDonalds, Wendys and other fast-food chains will stay away or walk off the job in roughly 15 cities on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.s  92nd birthday, said Fight for $15 and a Union, a movement of fast food and other low-paid workers, which is organiz...

Minimum people need to survive and these workers arent going to back down, rev. >> let me ask you, lets make this live and tangible to people watching. describe what a family or mom or dad goes through and trying to survive with the current federal minimum wage. what is life like with the current minimum wage for average mom or dad that is trying to make it with their family? >> i can give you a great example. one of our great leaders, terrence wise, from kansas city, missouri, was working at bu...