By Jacqui Rogers Imagine if you had not received a raise since 2009. That is the plight of Pennsylvania’s minimum wage workers, about 60% percent of whom are women and many are heads of households. During this pandemic many low wage workers are deemed “essential” and are touted as “heroes and sheroes.” So why are they not worthy of being paid a livable wage? There is no excuse for lawmakers to deny higher pay to thousands of the state’s lowest-paid workers — and there has never been a more appropriate time. President Joe Biden announced he would ask Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Pennsylvania’s legislature needs to do the same.