In his State of the Union speech, President Biden called for Congress to pass a $15 minimum wage. Eyes rolled everywhere. Democrats, who have narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, tried to pass a $15 minimum wage last year. They didn’t have the votes. They could have gotten the votes for raising the wage floor to $10 or $11, from the current $7.25. But that wasn’t good enough for Sen. Bernie Sanders and other party liberals. So Democrats haven’t raised the minimum wage at all,…
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