![]() ![]() I worked in fast food for over 30 years and I never, never made $15 an hour. “As a home healthcare worker, I make just $12 an hour. While workers’ wages also increased over that period in part because of a tight labor market, the pace has not kept up with inflation. In the two years since, Americans have faced the highest inflation since the 1980s, with consumer price increases hitting an annualized peak of more than 9% in June 2022, though they have moderated in recent months. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. In 2021, Democrats attempted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of a large spending bill intended to help the US economy recover from the Covid pandemic, but the effort failed, in part due to the defections of eight Democratic lawmakers.īiden later that year signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors, which affected as many as 390,000 workers, but the president has not said if he supports the increase to $17 an hour. Voters in several states and cities across the country have approved raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour, but progress on a national increase has remained elusive. It is time to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.”Ĭongress has not approved a minimum wage increase since raising the level to $7.25 an hour in 2009, where it remains for workers in 20 states. If you work 40-50 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. “In the year 2023, in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages. ![]() “As a result of inflation, $15 an hour back in 2021 would be over $17 an hour today,” said Sanders, an independent senator who caucuses with the Democrats. ![]()
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