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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said that a $15 federal minimum wage will be included in the aid package her chamber is preparing to send to the Senate.
She told reports during the weekly press briefing, “As I’ve said, 27 million people will get a raise, 70% of them women.”
Confirmation that the $15 federal minimum wage will be included in the latest version of the $1.9 trillion bill comes just days after the Senate voted on a nonbinding agreement to ban raising the minimum wage.
Still, House Democrats have pushed to keep the wage hike in their version of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, arguing that boosting pay for millions of workers is important to the U.S. economic recovery.
Democrats are doing what they can to make the case that the wage hike should be included in reconciliation.
As some Democrats have already spoken out against this measure, it will be interesting to see how they plan to get…