Saturday, December 14, 2013

The Current Battle for a Minimum Wage Increase


Minimum Wage in America - Current Battle for an Increase


In 2012, the Democratic House of Representatives Rep. from California, George Miller, proposed an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9.80, with 100 of the other Democratic Reps in the House supporting him (Raise the Minimum Wage). The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 proposed an increase of $0.85 cents of the federal minimum wage in the span of 2 years until the minimum wage reaches $9.80 in 2014. The bill has been referred to another committee, and currently, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, proposed by the same group of people, is trying to pass its way through Congress.

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