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AOC Slams Democrats Who Oppose $15 Minimum Wage Hike, Says It Should Actually Be $24

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials, AOC, has slammed some Democrats for failing to support the $15 minimum wage hike that the progressive demands. AOC said they live in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, adding that the minimum wage should actually be $24 an hour, Breitbart News reported. Any person who thinks that a $15 minimum wage is the crazy socialist agenda is living in a dystopian capitalist nightmare. And we should not prop that up. We should not continue that, she said in the report.  AOC stressed that there are basic goods that people could not afford to live on a $7.25 an hour, adding that it was deeply, deeply shameful that they are having this talk in the first place.

US fast food workers hold Black History Month strikes to demand $15 an hour

Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 08.09 EST Fast-food workers in 15 cities will hold a Black History Month strike on Tuesday to demand that the McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s restaurant chains pay them $15 an hour. The action comes as Congress prepares to debate a federal rise in the minimum wage to $15 from its current rate of $7.25, the first federal raise since 2009. Workers in cities including Atlanta, Charleston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and St Louis will be joined by home care and nursing home workers in support of a $15 minimum wage and the right to join a union. Joe Biden pledged to increase the minimum wage during his election campaign but has recently suggested the increase may not make it into the $1.9tn coronavirus relief package he is trying to push through Congress. Biden has said the increase is central to his pledge to narrow racial economic inequality.

Biden urges Congress to pass Covid relief quickly amid enormous pain

Joe Biden urged Congress to swiftly pass a $1.9tn relief package, emphasizing the collective financial and emotional stress millions of Americans face as the pandemic that has claimed more than 450,000 lives continues into its second year. “I know some in Congress think we’ve already done enough to deal with the crisis in the country,” he said. “Others think that things are getting better and we can afford to sit back and either do little or do.

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