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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...