Texas Dems on Fight for $15 Federal Minimum Wage

AUSTIN, Texas - Senate Democrats worked last Thursday until early Friday morning securing votes on dozens of amendments in order to pave the way for the passage of President Biden's much-needed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package.

The package included a federal minimum wage increase to $15 an hour, which was shot down by Republicans who introduced an amendment to stop the wage increase during the pandemic.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, has led the fight to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and has introduced separate legislation to do so over a five year period, or by 2025.

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa issued a statement:

While the $15 minimum wage was effectively stopped from being implemented during the pandemic, Democrats are still fighting to make sure it becomes a reality for millions of Americans who have not seen any significant increase in their wages in decades, even as productivity has increased approximately 70 percent since 1969, and the cost of food and living continues to increase every year.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has championed this cause and I thank him for not backing down. His legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 will mean that we value the real work of millions of Americans while affording them and their families a much-deserved better quality of life.

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It should be noted that the jump supposedly would give nearly 32 million American workers a raise, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research group. However, that would not last very long as companies are already implementing strategies to replace certain worker jobs with robots &/or kiosks. So that number will inevitably decrease drastically.