Please make this happen. It would make tens of millions of lives go from misery to quality.
SlippersLaCroix on
But we have ballrooms to build and children to bomb!
Alwaystired254 on
GOP will really get behind this. Nice to see bipartisan legislation to help the people
Unusual-State1827 on
From the article:
>A group of House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would hike the minimum wage to $25 per hour, the boldest target any progressives in Congress have set for the federal wage floor.
>The legislation from Reps. Delia Ramirez (Ill.) and Analilia Mejia (N.J.) won’t be going anywhere while Republicans control the House and Senate. But it’s a sign of how some Democrats are moving well beyond the $15 minimum wage that was the party’s rallying cry for several years, especially as families continue to feel the squeeze of inflation.
>The bill would provide a several-year phase-in period and give smaller firms more time to adjust. Large employers that have at least 500 workers or $1 billion in gross annual revenue would hit $25 by 2031. Employers that don’t meet those criteria would have until 2038.
>Ramirez said the gradual phase-in would “ensure small businesses are able to get to 25 an hour.”
>After the initial increases, the proposal would tie the minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median hourly pay. It would also eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for restaurant servers and other workers who get much of their income from gratuities.
NelsonHawkinsGhost on
Ah, we’re at the messaging bills phase of midterms.
YeetusShuttlesworth on
Help the people? Never.
Big-Corncob on
The sad part is that this won’t even get support from the majority of Democrats.
AccomplishedKiss on
Tripling the wage would bring it to over $22/hour. While it sounds extreme to some, if the minimum wage had actually kept pace with productivity and inflation since the late 60s, we’d already be there. We’ve just been subsidizing low-wage corporate profits with stagnant pay for forty years.
FredFuzzypants on
While I think a raise to the Federal minimum wage is long overdue, I think a better approach would be to pass a law that ties congressional pay raises to the minimum wage. If congress wants to increase pay for themselves or their staff, they’d have to increase minimum wage by the same percentage.
GreatGojira on
Minimum wage is still $7.25 in my area
Simple-Ring2073 on
Republicans think not suffering is a greedy thing poor people ask for.
mr_mojo_ryzen on
Tie the minimum wage to the growth of the SP500/Dow from the last year there was a federal minimum wage increase. So that when there are arguments using the Dow being “ABOVE 50K!”as a reference point, they can also gloat and SAY “BUT THE MINIMUM WAGE IS ABOVE $50/HR!”
KRoadkil on
Minimum wage needs to be approximately $17 to have the same buying power as the boomers $2 minimum wage from the 70s. Whine all you want, but Gen X and Millennials have been fkd by your economic policies and how dare they try to fix it for the GenZ and GenA.
So in the 80s when your middle class parents made $50k and life was great, if wages kept up with inflation, you would have to make **$212k** today.
Your minimum wage of $7.25 today has the same buying power as .85¢ to the boomer of the 70s.
This is why you don’t have grandkids and are stuck with your second home you can’t sell.
“It’ll cause businesses to close.” Capitalism at its finest.
“It’ll drive up rent.” For your already overpriced rental, good luck filling it. Rent should not be more than a mortgage.
Rombledore on
i would take a paycut to a much less stressful job if i could, and this can finally help me do that. i literally cannot afford my bills if i take a lower paying job for my own mental health
Justin_Queso1187 on
Can’t wait for the republican and corporate meltdown, talks of socialism, communism, get a better job, join the trades, how businesses can’t afford to pay employees “more” (a LIVING wage), blah blah blah
rgvtim on
Even in states like Texas, the real minimum wage for most entry level positions, such a grocery store cashier is more than double already. the only business this will hurt are those that are truly fucking their employees.
phonartics on
22 per hr is something like 43k per year. current 7.25 is only like 14k. I don’t understand how people are against raising min wage. how the fuck are you supposed to raise a family on 7.25 for each parent?
Idiot_Savant_13 on
I have a better suggestion:
MANDATE that a 1 bed / 1 bath apartment can’t charge more than 1/3 the Federal Minimum Wage in monthly rent.
That would actually guarantee that any legal job ensures at least a place to live.
That this hasn’t been done yet – or even proposed – is proof that the game is still rigged against us all.
Ok-Hold-8232 on
In 2015 the Bernie campaign really popularized the $15 minimum wage.
Adjusted for inflation that would be about $21 in 2026.
Desperate-Machine1 on
I don’t like a static minimum wage. If it were up to me I’d pin the minimum wage to a percentage of Congress’s salary. So, with rank and file earning $174,000/yr, say we pin it to 25%, minimum wage would be $21/hr. If Congress want to vote themselves an increase, they’re also voting an increase for everyone.
Gcastle_CPT on
BuT tHe BuSiNeSsEs wIlL lEaVe!!!
Zargoza1 on
The sad truth is that as a society we are so gaslit by the billionaires that when someone struggling financially hears this they won’t think “oh that’s a great idea, it will help me tremendously” it’s “oh no, someone else might get that and they’ll lower my salary or let me go to make up for it”.
Tax billionaires into non-existence.
reagan_baby on
Just leaning that Wyoming’s state statute for the minimum wage is $5.15/hr – lower than the fed min wage. The federal rate applies to most employees though.
Pretty sure the GOP would lower the minimum wage if they could get away with it.
estist on
From a 100% non political stand point. What happens to the prices of goods or services a company provides when they have to pay their employees 3x as much. I know there is a problem with inflation vs min wage but they are connected. If you raise min wage won’t inflation go up also?
Wouldn’t it be smarter to figure out inflation and get it to lower. Why taxes are so high. Why we are getting taxed multiple times on the same dollar or goods. There are hundreds of varibles in this equation. I just don’t see raising min wage being the fix. We need to get smart and not just echo chamber on this to figure this out and get it right. If we get it wrong then our childrens children are just going to be worse off.
Going a little political… both parties are just full of trash and greedy people. They love the fact we are too busy fighting each other instead of them. This topic is an easy way to split us, just look at all the comments.
DJK695 on
Yeah, Republikkkans aren’t going to allow this.
SailorBoone on
Perfect timing now that they’re still out of power
surlysurfer on
Trump voters making $7.25/hr are going to hate this because billionaires will tell them it’s bad
ScoobyScotty on
Y’all remember when Bernie was screaming about raising the federal minimum wage from from $7.25 to $15 over a decade ago. Guess what? Minimum wage hasn’t gone up a cent since then, and we now need way more to get by!
Skill_Issuer on
They need to index it to inflation too
SuperpositionDreamer on
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages have not keep up with productivity. If it had, the average wage should be approximately $16.40 more per hour. You can find this under the FAQ section at : https://www.epi.org/resources/wage-calculator/
“Why did wages and productivity stop moving together? Shouldn’t a stronger economy lift everyone?
Lawmakers began dismantling the rules that kept pay and productivity connected. Minimum wage was raised less often, unions were weakened, unemployment was allowed to rise, and tax rates on the wealthy were cut.
Worker pay has been held down, or suppressed, while productivity has risen. This is what we call the productivity pay gap.
Net productivity grew 90.2% from 1979 to 2025 while typical worker pay grew by 33.0% in the same time period. If pay had kept pace with productivity, the typical worker would be making $16.40 more per hour today, $13.53 of which is in greater wages.”
Lassagna12 on
This is a bandaid to actual problems that plague society. Student loans, housing and rental cost, insurance, medical insurance, tariffs. There’s a lot of problems that need to be solved first, otherwise the cost of items will just go up and we will be back in square one.
mysecondaccountanon on
>It would also eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for restaurant servers and other workers who get much of their income from gratuities.
I worked tipped wage before, it’s an absolute joke. Good.
uffda2calif on
Maybe stuff just shouldn’t cost so much 🤷🏻♀️
White_C4 on
Raising minimum wage doesn’t fix the central problem: devaluation of the dollar and inflation lead to the rising costs of goods and services, thus making it harder for wages to catch up. The federal minimum wage has been obsolete for years because even states like Alabama with the lowest minimum wage are averaging much higher than that.
Instead of wasting time on unrealistic bills like this, fix the dollar problem.
XxKillingStormxX on
Love the sentiment, but absolutely not going to make it out of committee so long as the orange turd has control over Congress
ItsASnowStorm on
This would also triple the replacement of minimum wage jobs with ai powered robots. And annihilate small businesses who alreary can’t afford to stay open. Leaving only mega corporations grilling burgers.
Why don’t we instead lower the price of living?
Lower the cost of artificially inflated Healthcare?
Lower rent prices by busting up corporate owned residential lots.
InterstellarReddit on
MAGA “the ballroom is needed”
Then proceed to say:
MAGA “tripling minimum wage is a waste of tax payer funds”
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I bet the GOP will wait out for bread riots.
Please make this happen. It would make tens of millions of lives go from misery to quality.
But we have ballrooms to build and children to bomb!
GOP will really get behind this. Nice to see bipartisan legislation to help the people
From the article:
>A group of House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would hike the minimum wage to $25 per hour, the boldest target any progressives in Congress have set for the federal wage floor.
>The legislation from Reps. Delia Ramirez (Ill.) and Analilia Mejia (N.J.) won’t be going anywhere while Republicans control the House and Senate. But it’s a sign of how some Democrats are moving well beyond the $15 minimum wage that was the party’s rallying cry for several years, especially as families continue to feel the squeeze of inflation.
>The bill would provide a several-year phase-in period and give smaller firms more time to adjust. Large employers that have at least 500 workers or $1 billion in gross annual revenue would hit $25 by 2031. Employers that don’t meet those criteria would have until 2038.
>Ramirez said the gradual phase-in would “ensure small businesses are able to get to 25 an hour.”
>After the initial increases, the proposal would tie the minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median hourly pay. It would also eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for restaurant servers and other workers who get much of their income from gratuities.
Ah, we’re at the messaging bills phase of midterms.
Help the people? Never.
The sad part is that this won’t even get support from the majority of Democrats.
Tripling the wage would bring it to over $22/hour. While it sounds extreme to some, if the minimum wage had actually kept pace with productivity and inflation since the late 60s, we’d already be there. We’ve just been subsidizing low-wage corporate profits with stagnant pay for forty years.
While I think a raise to the Federal minimum wage is long overdue, I think a better approach would be to pass a law that ties congressional pay raises to the minimum wage. If congress wants to increase pay for themselves or their staff, they’d have to increase minimum wage by the same percentage.
Minimum wage is still $7.25 in my area
Republicans think not suffering is a greedy thing poor people ask for.
Tie the minimum wage to the growth of the SP500/Dow from the last year there was a federal minimum wage increase. So that when there are arguments using the Dow being “ABOVE 50K!”as a reference point, they can also gloat and SAY “BUT THE MINIMUM WAGE IS ABOVE $50/HR!”
Minimum wage needs to be approximately $17 to have the same buying power as the boomers $2 minimum wage from the 70s. Whine all you want, but Gen X and Millennials have been fkd by your economic policies and how dare they try to fix it for the GenZ and GenA.
So in the 80s when your middle class parents made $50k and life was great, if wages kept up with inflation, you would have to make **$212k** today.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Your minimum wage of $7.25 today has the same buying power as .85¢ to the boomer of the 70s.
This is why you don’t have grandkids and are stuck with your second home you can’t sell.
“It’ll cause businesses to close.” Capitalism at its finest.
“It’ll drive up rent.” For your already overpriced rental, good luck filling it. Rent should not be more than a mortgage.
i would take a paycut to a much less stressful job if i could, and this can finally help me do that. i literally cannot afford my bills if i take a lower paying job for my own mental health
Can’t wait for the republican and corporate meltdown, talks of socialism, communism, get a better job, join the trades, how businesses can’t afford to pay employees “more” (a LIVING wage), blah blah blah
Even in states like Texas, the real minimum wage for most entry level positions, such a grocery store cashier is more than double already. the only business this will hurt are those that are truly fucking their employees.
22 per hr is something like 43k per year. current 7.25 is only like 14k. I don’t understand how people are against raising min wage. how the fuck are you supposed to raise a family on 7.25 for each parent?
I have a better suggestion:
MANDATE that a 1 bed / 1 bath apartment can’t charge more than 1/3 the Federal Minimum Wage in monthly rent.
That would actually guarantee that any legal job ensures at least a place to live.
That this hasn’t been done yet – or even proposed – is proof that the game is still rigged against us all.
In 2015 the Bernie campaign really popularized the $15 minimum wage.
Adjusted for inflation that would be about $21 in 2026.
I don’t like a static minimum wage. If it were up to me I’d pin the minimum wage to a percentage of Congress’s salary. So, with rank and file earning $174,000/yr, say we pin it to 25%, minimum wage would be $21/hr. If Congress want to vote themselves an increase, they’re also voting an increase for everyone.
BuT tHe BuSiNeSsEs wIlL lEaVe!!!
The sad truth is that as a society we are so gaslit by the billionaires that when someone struggling financially hears this they won’t think “oh that’s a great idea, it will help me tremendously” it’s “oh no, someone else might get that and they’ll lower my salary or let me go to make up for it”.
Tax billionaires into non-existence.
Just leaning that Wyoming’s state statute for the minimum wage is $5.15/hr – lower than the fed min wage. The federal rate applies to most employees though.
Pretty sure the GOP would lower the minimum wage if they could get away with it.
From a 100% non political stand point. What happens to the prices of goods or services a company provides when they have to pay their employees 3x as much. I know there is a problem with inflation vs min wage but they are connected. If you raise min wage won’t inflation go up also?
Wouldn’t it be smarter to figure out inflation and get it to lower. Why taxes are so high. Why we are getting taxed multiple times on the same dollar or goods. There are hundreds of varibles in this equation. I just don’t see raising min wage being the fix. We need to get smart and not just echo chamber on this to figure this out and get it right. If we get it wrong then our childrens children are just going to be worse off.
Going a little political… both parties are just full of trash and greedy people. They love the fact we are too busy fighting each other instead of them. This topic is an easy way to split us, just look at all the comments.
Yeah, Republikkkans aren’t going to allow this.
Perfect timing now that they’re still out of power
Trump voters making $7.25/hr are going to hate this because billionaires will tell them it’s bad
Y’all remember when Bernie was screaming about raising the federal minimum wage from from $7.25 to $15 over a decade ago. Guess what? Minimum wage hasn’t gone up a cent since then, and we now need way more to get by!
They need to index it to inflation too
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages have not keep up with productivity. If it had, the average wage should be approximately $16.40 more per hour. You can find this under the FAQ section at : https://www.epi.org/resources/wage-calculator/
“Why did wages and productivity stop moving together? Shouldn’t a stronger economy lift everyone?
Lawmakers began dismantling the rules that kept pay and productivity connected. Minimum wage was raised less often, unions were weakened, unemployment was allowed to rise, and tax rates on the wealthy were cut.
Worker pay has been held down, or suppressed, while productivity has risen. This is what we call the productivity pay gap.
Net productivity grew 90.2% from 1979 to 2025 while typical worker pay grew by 33.0% in the same time period. If pay had kept pace with productivity, the typical worker would be making $16.40 more per hour today, $13.53 of which is in greater wages.”
This is a bandaid to actual problems that plague society. Student loans, housing and rental cost, insurance, medical insurance, tariffs. There’s a lot of problems that need to be solved first, otherwise the cost of items will just go up and we will be back in square one.
>It would also eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for restaurant servers and other workers who get much of their income from gratuities.
I worked tipped wage before, it’s an absolute joke. Good.
Maybe stuff just shouldn’t cost so much 🤷🏻♀️
Raising minimum wage doesn’t fix the central problem: devaluation of the dollar and inflation lead to the rising costs of goods and services, thus making it harder for wages to catch up. The federal minimum wage has been obsolete for years because even states like Alabama with the lowest minimum wage are averaging much higher than that.
Instead of wasting time on unrealistic bills like this, fix the dollar problem.
Love the sentiment, but absolutely not going to make it out of committee so long as the orange turd has control over Congress
This would also triple the replacement of minimum wage jobs with ai powered robots. And annihilate small businesses who alreary can’t afford to stay open. Leaving only mega corporations grilling burgers.
Why don’t we instead lower the price of living?
Lower the cost of artificially inflated Healthcare?
Lower rent prices by busting up corporate owned residential lots.
MAGA “the ballroom is needed”
Then proceed to say:
MAGA “tripling minimum wage is a waste of tax payer funds”