Analysis

Why Two Democratic Senators Oppose the $15 Minimum Wage

West Virginia and Arizona would suffer tremendously from a dramatic hike to the federal minimum wage.

Mairead Elordi
Why Two Democratic Senators Oppose the $15 Minimum Wage
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The Biden administration has littered its coronavirus relief bill with poison pills, one of which is an attempt to raise the federal minimum wage to $15, a proposal that has been effectively neutered by two moderate Democrat senators whose states would suffer tremendously from such a hike.

Earlier this month, Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voiced their opposition to boosting the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $15 as part of the coronavirus relief bill.

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