Biden minimum wage proposal could lift more than 1 million workers out of poverty
“President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal to more than double the federal minimum wage would provide an urgently pay hike to millions of low-income workers and help stem inequality in the U.S., economists and labor advocates said. In detailing his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal on Thursday, Mr. Biden called for raising the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, saying, “No one working 40 hours a week should still be below the poverty line.”