Kamala Harris says she supports raising minimum wage to $15 – Washington Examiner
In a recent interview with NBC, Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her support for raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to at least $15 per hour. She stated that this proposal would involve collaboration with Congress to enact the necessary changes. Harris emphasized that the current minimum wage is inadequate, labeling it as “poverty wages” and highlighting the struggles individuals face while earning such low pay. Her comments come amid discussions about her past claims of working at McDonald’s and following a public appearance by former President Donald Trump at a McDonald’s restaurant. Harris’s remarks are part of a broader conversation about economic reform and the impact of wage increases on American workers.
Kamala Harris says she supports raising minimum wage to $15
Vice President Kamala Harris pledged her support for doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to at least $15 in an interview Tuesday evening.
Harris made the remarks while talking about President Joe Biden’s economic record in an interview with NBC, saying they would work with Congress to make the change.
“At least $15 an hour, but we’ll work with Congress, right?” she said, according to the Telegraph. “It’s something that is going through Congress.”
The comments come after discourse over whether Harris worked at McDonald’s in her youth, as she claims, and after former President Donald Trump visited a McDonald’s and worked the fryer over the weekend.
Harris also called $7.25 an hour “poverty wages” on Monday, saying that it is difficult to make a living earning such a low wage.
“The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which means that the person who is working a full day and full weeks will make $15,000 a year, which is essentially poverty wages,” Harris said, according to Reuters. “I absolutely believe that we must raise minimum wage.”
In 2020, Trump both expressed support for and rejected raising the minimum wage.
The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was in 2009, when it was changed from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour.
The minimum wage in California, Harris’s home state, is $16. In Florida, Trump’s current home state, the minimum wage is $13.
Legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour would change the wages in all but seven states and Washington, D.C.
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