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Tue, 01/26/2021 - 1:42pm -- tim 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...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), talks during an interview with MSNBC in the Russell Rotunda in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Democrats are introducing the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. An increase to the minimum wage is also part of Biden's stimulus, but Democrats want to make sure it gets done. Sen. Be...

These 20 states are raising their minimum wage on Jan. 1 Ben Werschkul While the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has hit poor Americans the hardest, minimum wage earners in 20 U.S. states will get raises at the start of the new year. Four more states, plus Washington, DC, will raise their minimum wages later in 2021. Florida’s workers will get one of the biggest raises, after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in November to gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2026. The lowest-earning workers there earn $8.56 per hour and will move up to $8.65 on Jan. 1 a...