The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009, or roughly $15,000 a year for someone working 40 hours a week.
A $15-an-hour federal minimum wage has long been on many Democratic lawmakers’ wish lists. They could have the chance to cross that goal off their lists come November with former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump in several recent polls.
The term “essential worker” describes the group of workers that were called to work in person when the majority of the economy was shutdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. “Their employers failed to adequately protect them — treating them as disposable while our nation labels them essential,” she said. “Of our nine deceased union members, eight were people of color and one was a white woman with Down Syndrome.”
Bettie Douglas, a McDonald’s MCD, +0.59% worker and a leader in the Fight for $15 and a Union, a campaign launched in 2012 by American fast food workers to push for a higher minimum wage, participated in a Strike for Black Lives demonstration in Saint Louis, Mo. on Monday. A McDonald’s USA spokesperson told MarketWatch that “the average starting wage at U.S. corporate-owned restaurants is over $10 per hour and exceeds the federal minimum wage.”
“ ‘What will help businesses when it’s safe for them to reopen is not a low minimum wage. It’s increased consumer demand that comes from raising wages and unemployment benefits that put cash in people’s hands.’ ” The CBO’s report, which was published in July 2019, naturally doesn’t capture the economic impact of the pandemic, which has put the U.S. and other countries into a recession.
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