Source: Rick Newman, YAHOO FINANCE, 2/4/21


Raising the federal minimum wage has been a Democratic priority for years, and Democrats now control the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade. So now might seem like the time. But there are still barriers to the Democrats’ preferred option, a $15 minimum wage that would phase in over four or five years. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who’s taking over as chair of the Senate Budget

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