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Vermont Business Magazine In a press conference today, incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined incoming Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) to announce the introduction of legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025.
The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 in five steps over the next four years. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
December 22, 2020 6:15 AM By Brandon Lee
Congress passed a roughly $900 billion aid package attached to the $1.4 trillion measure to fund government operations through the end of the fiscal year. The Health and Human Services component of the fiscal 2021 government funding legislation boosts money for medical research and public health and also supports the rollout of vaccines that could bring an end to the pandemic.
HHS would get $96.5 billion in fiscal 2021, a $2 billion bump from last year. The package also includes a separate $73 billion pot of emergency funds to help tackle the pandemicâs continuing effects. Read more from Sarah Babbage.
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