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House Democrats are including a $15 federal minimum wage in their coronavirus relief package, though questions remain over whether the increase can survive Senate consideration. The provision written into the House Education and Labor Committees portion of the bill Monday
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would increase the wage gradually from its current rate of $7.25 an hour to $15 in 2025.This comes after the Congressional Budget Office released a report the same day that estimates that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years would lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty. The CBO found some 17 million people currently making below the minimum wage would be directly impacted while a
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nother ten million people whose wages are slightly above the minimum rate would also be affected.At the same time, the CBO projected that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would result in 1.4 million fewer jobs. It also estimated the pay hike would increase the federal deficit by $54 billion over ten years, with higher spending on health care programs, unemployment, Social Security and more, while spending on programs such as food assistance would drop because more low-income families would no longer need to rely on them. The CBO s report strengthens the
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case for gradually raising the minimum wage through the COVID-19 rescue package, said House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott in a statement before it was released in his committee s portion of the CO Fccz This week on Face the Nation: Michele Bachmann
Joe Raedle/Getty Images WASHINGTON - There s one key difference between Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama when it comes to debate prep: One enjoys it, and the other doesn t. He s in a good mood, good shape, this is something he s done before, and he knows what he s doing, said former
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Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman, who has been helping to advise the vice president during the long hours in a Wilmington, Delaware hotel where they are getting ready for tomorrow s debate against Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan in Danville, Kentucky.President Obama descr
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ibed debate prep as a drag. But Biden s colleagues and friends say the former senator, who spent decades making arguments on the Senate floor, genuinely enjoys his practice sessions. He was a happy warrior, laughed former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as she recalled helping Biden prepare for his one and only vice presidential debate in 2008. When I was a candidate, I hated debate prep with a passion, she continued. So I was always struck by how game Joe Biden was about doing this. Because it s such an unpleasant task, to have to do debate prep, because it s standing there responding to people reading the worst opposition research memo about you. You have to hit them back, but he was totally game. Granholm, who now hosts The War Room on Current TV,
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