{"id":53294,"date":"2021-02-25T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2a3a1a08eae171e61e146911da1c8988"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:35:36","slug":"not-ready-to-give-up-democrats-push-senate-to-keep-popular-15-minimum-wage-in-stimulus-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/not-ready-to-give-up-democrats-push-senate-to-keep-popular-15-minimum-wage-in-stimulus-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not Ready to Give Up&#8221;: Democrats Push Senate to Keep Popular $15 Minimum Wage in Stimulus Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/25\/15_dollars_federal_minimum_wage\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/72\/56772\/w320\/seg2_15-now.jpg\" alt=\"Seg2 15 now\" \/><\/a><p>As the House of Representatives prepares to pass a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a fight is brewing over the inclusion of an increase to the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The measure is at risk in the Senate, where conservative Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona&#8217;s Kyrsten Sinema oppose its inclusion in the relief bill or suggest a lower amount. Congressmember Jan Schakowsky of Illinois says Congress must pass the minimum wage hike to help address inequality in the United States. &#8220;The current minimum wage, federally, is $7.25. Now, you can&#8217;t live on that. You can&#8217;t raise a family on that,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Those colleagues of mine who think that it is too high, that we have to have perhaps a regional wage, are so disrespectful.&#8221;<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/25\/15_dollars_federal_minimum_wage\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the House of Representatives prepares to pass a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a fight is brewing over the inclusion of an increase to the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The measure is at risk in the Senate, where conservative Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona&#8217;s Kyrsten Sinema oppose its inclusion in the relief bill or suggest a lower amount. Congressmember Jan Schakowsky of Illinois says Congress must pass the minimum wage hike to help address inequality in the United States. &#8220;The current minimum wage, federally, is $7.25. Now, you can&#8217;t live on that. You can&#8217;t raise a family on that,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Those colleagues of mine who think that it is too high, that we have to have perhaps a regional wage, are so disrespectful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53295,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53294\/revisions\/53295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}