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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the debate over raising the minimum wage is “utterly embarrassing,” according to Fox Business.
“It is utterly embarrassing that ‘pay people enough to live’ is a stance that’s even up for debate,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage.”
It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.
Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD’s workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise – a big one, considering the phase in.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 3, 2021
Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost the economy about 1.4 million jobs and would lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty
Elizabeth MacDonough found that increasing the minimum wage is not compliant with budget reconciliation rules.
From Fox Business:
The House passed its version of Biden’s relief measure over the weekend that included the $15 wage hike. The Senate could move as soon as this week to pass its own version of the bill, which will exclude the $15 minimum wage increase.
Democrats also dropped an alternative method to increase the pay floor by imposing a penalty on corporations that pay low wages amid concerns that its inclusion could delay the bill’s passage past March 14, when millions of Americans will lose their unemployment aid.
