Sanders Intros Bill For Eventual $17 Minimum Wage

Congress Minutes reports:

Senate HELP Chair Bernie Sanders is escalating his push to raise the minimum wage even as moderate Democrats double down on past concerns with the effort.

Details: The Vermont independent rolled out a new bill Thursday that would hike the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour over five years. It’s a step up from his last proposal, which would shift the wage to $15 an hour — and more than double the current floor, which is $7.25 an hour.

“It is absurd that we have not raised the minimum wage since 2007,” Sanders said in an interview. “You can’t have millions of people working for starvation wages.”

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