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Progressives Won't Give Up  Senate parliamentarian ruled that putting a stepped increase in the wage to $15 an hour in Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan didn’t comply with Senate budget rules. “Really our options right now, at least our immediate options on this specific issue, is to do something about this parliamentary obstacle or abolish the filibuster,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday. Democrats pushing the minimum wage provision say the rest of Biden’s agenda, including infrastructure investments, immigration reform and measures to combat ...

Advocates weigh in on pros and cons of proposed $15 minimum wage hike Advocates weigh in on pros and cons of proposed $15 minimum wage hike By Lester Duhé | January 18, 2021 at 10:06 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 9:53 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Could your minimum wage get bumped up to $15 dollars an hour? That’s a part of the Coronavirus recovery plan proposed by President-elect Joe Biden. The federal minimum wage, which currently sits at $7.25 an hour, hasn’t budged since 2009. Louisiana mirrors the federal minimum wage. While advocates for the change believe it would he...