Biden’s claim that with a $15 minimum wage, ‘the whole economy rises’ Glenn Kessler (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News)
“I do think that we should have a minimum wage, stand by itself, $15 an hour and work your way up to the it doesn’t have to be boom. And all the economics show, if you do that, the whole economy rises.”
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, Feb. 5, 2021 President Biden is pushing for a gradual increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, after which it would be indexed for inflation. The wage was last raised in 2009, to $7.25, though more than half of the states now have set even higher minimums.
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