I’m thrilled to announce that after working with leadership, we’ve secured a $15 minimum wage in the House’s COVID relief bill!
This provision would lift nearly 1 million people out of poverty. It’s long overdue that Congress enacts a minimum wage that is a living wage.
When I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, it won’t keep a mother and her baby out of poverty. We need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.