In an interview on Tuesday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris said she would support doubling the federal minimum wage from$ 7.25 an hour to at least$ 15.
Harris made the remarks while talking about President Joe Biden’s economic report in an interview with NBC, claiming that they would collaborate with Congress to bring about the change.
” At least$ 15 an hour, but we’ll work with Congress, right”? she said, according to the Telegraph. ” It’s something that is going through Congress”.
The comments come after discussion over whether Harris worked at McDonald’s in her youth, as she claims, and after past President Donald Trump visited a McDonald’s and worked the burner over the weekend.
Harris also called$ 7.25 an afternoon “poverty income” on Monday, saying that it is difficult to make a life earning for a low salary.
” The current federal minimum wage is$ 7.25 an hour, which means that the person who is working a full day and full weeks will make$ 15, 000 a year, which is essentially poverty wages”, Harris said, according to Reuters. ” I firmly believe that the minimum wage may be raised.”
Trump both endorsed and opposed raising the minimum wage in 2020.
The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was in 2009, when it was changed from$ 5.15 to$ 7.25 an hour.
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The minimum wage in California, Harris’s house position, is$ 16. In Florida, Trump’s present residence position, the minimum salary is$ 13.
The minimum wage would be raised to$ 15 per hour under legislation that would affect all but seven states and Washington, D.C.
