$15 Wage Now Included in House Reconciliation Bill!

Progressive Caucus has announced that it's included in the House Reconciliation Bill.

I'm going to let them figure out how it gets done!

by Nelson Rockefeller.


https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-senate-referee-could-hold-the-keys-to-health-care-changes

Thanks to all the Dems involved for their hard work.

Energy, courage, leadership.

remember Democratic administrations know how to get the economy moving again, they know how to govern, repigs do not.

never stop, cause you know Repigs want to keep Americans sick and poor. they proved it over and over again.

Let us show who is in charge.

Could this cause fucking Manchin to vote it down when its final vote time?

knows?

But there could be a way forward, offer a slow timeline or waivers for states like WV. There are a million ways to get this done.

$15 Minimum wage is extremely important to me, not because I have made less than $15 an hour for a long time, but because I remember what it was like to struggle on $10 an hour and how hopeless life seemed then. I don't want my fellow citizens to feel hopeless. $15 will lift millions out of poverty and give hope to tens of millions. But $15 should be adjusted annually or we'll just end up in the same spot in a couple of decades.

Manchin better be OK with it.

Frankly I think it should be $15 now (or actually $20 now) but I've never understood Manchin's problem except that he is a dick.

the deficit, an argument for being able to include it in a bill passed by reconciliation. So far, Sanders as finance chair has not announced, nor any of the party leaders.

reconciliation bill.

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That's all I posted. What happens from the House to the Senate in terms of procedure I'm not sure. But I bet Nancy Pelosi knows.

it makes sense that they'd be allowed to announce this big news. First step...

just that it hasn't been picked up by CNN yet?

new discussion hasn't hit the web yet.

including it.

Maybe not - but I'd be shocked if Nancy put it in with no input from the Senate.

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I guess lifting people out of poverty is the important criteria. Besides, now that the CBO says it's going to cost jobs - it fits in perfectly with reconciliation as it affects the budget!!!

And here's an article from 2019 that discusses the CBO's flawed metrics as well as information from states that raised minimum wage without job loss.

https://equitablegrowth.org/research-shows-raising-the-minimum-wage-does-not-spell-job-loss/

I'm pretty sure - we can find an paper or research for any side anyone wants to sit on. But I prefer talking about morality and the idea that people are trying to live on $7.25/hour - or $290/week - or $15,000 year (before taxes) is disgraceful. States with that wage in 2021:

Alabama, Georgia (actually they were even lower except for Employers subject to Fair Labor Standards), Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, NH, NC, ND, OK, PA, SC, TN, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming (also lower except like GA).

I'm sorry but even in some of these states with a lower cost of living - it's shameful.