Thank you to the Progressive Caucus

[cilla4progress]

who got the $15 minimum wage included in the COVID relief bill today!

Link to tweet

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[NJCher]

1. Does it get any better than this?

Going to bed with a big ☺️

[scarletwoman]

2. Excellent! Wonderful news!

Now is the time to go for it - I'm so glad they did!

[BigmanPigman]

3. Isn't it nice to get up in the morning

and not have to dread the latest tRump disaster when you read or listen to the news?

[Celerity]

4. That is only the House version, which was always going to have it..

Manchin will try and block it in the Senate version, I am fairly sure, if the Senate Parliamentarian even allows a minimum wage part in.

Manchin wants 11 usd per hour. In 2021 purchasing power versus 2009 (the last minimum wage raise) 11 per hour in 2009 is now 8.25 per hour. 7.25 usd per hour in 2009 now is sround p5.45 usd ph.

IF Manchin insists on a 4 or 5 year phase-in to 11, that 11 usd per hour, by 2025, 2026 or so, will be worth LESS than 7.25 was in 2009 and quickly will go sub 7 per hour in purchasing power.

[msongs]

5. beware the ides of manchin de sinema nt

[malaise]

6. Yes indeed

Rec

[lapucelle]

7. NYS Democrats accomplished the $15/hr minimum wage through 5+ year incremental increases,

with the rates determined by region, size of the business, and economic indices.



https://www.ny.gov/new-york-states-minimum-wage/new-york-states-minimum-wage

[betsuni]

8. +1

[lapucelle]

9. While Speaker Pelosi was successful in including President Biden's $15/hr minimum wage

in the House version of the bill, the fight is far from over where the Senate is concerned.

Sanders, the Senate Budget chairman, successfully defused a fight late Thursday over Biden’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

At issue was a non-binding budget amendment from Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, that opposed raising the wage “during a global pandemic.”

While Sanders said he still intends to increase the wage to $15 an hour in the virus relief package, he said his plan always called for a five year phase-in. He said the $15 wage would be in place five years from now, not during the pandemic itself, so he would support Ernst’s amendment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/romney-proposes-expanding-child-tax-credit-stimulus-update