To End ‘New Gilded Age,’ House Progressives Unveil Bill to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $25 Per Hour
2026-04-28 17:50 UTC
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 21:04
Great, next time you have a majority, pass the increase. You don't need a super majority, stop your parliamentary bullshitting. Use "the nuclear option" (Trent Lott, R coined the term in 2000s to scare the dummies), you only need a **SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTE**. Don't try it just once... repeat until passage, party whips can make it happen. If they can't, go public with the holdouts and why, every day. Refuse to pass **anything else** until it's done. People have been fighting for 15 an hour so long it's no longer enough. Poland has better worker benefits and pays almost as much as the USA; we will soon be surpassed by **Eastern Europe**. When the labor law was passed in 1938 or so, the minimum wage was supposed to be enough to keep a family of four above the poverty line with **ONE WORKER**. Make that the law, because you obviously can't be trusted to raise the wage on your own in the future. You embarrassing hacks.
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@Snowies@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 13:42
We need a federal minimum wage that increases with inflation every year as a default. If your wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, you’re taking a pay cut, every year — for the same (or let’s be real, slightly more) expected workload. It’s time for the work force in this country to organize and stand united as a whole. A thousand rich people cannot withstand the might of 300 million working voters.
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@sommerset@thelemmy.club 2026-04-29 22:06
Hey. I want to nationalize seashores. It's unfair most people are kept in tiny dirty reservations ( public beaches) while the rich still own most of the costal areas. Oceans coasts belong to all of us.
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@danc4498@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 18:07
Can’t wait to hear all the people complaining about this because they’re already making $25 an hour. As though keeping everybody else down will somehow make things better for you. If you’re making $25 an hour, and the minimum wage changes, you should demand more money for yourself, not less money for other.
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@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 10:32
> Companies with more than $1 billion gross revenue or more than 500 employees would be scheduled to increase their minimum pay to $25/hour by 2031, while smaller employers would be on a longer timeline to reach $25/hour by 2038. I wish we would stop chasing moving targets here. 2031 is just 5 years, but what will it mean with inflation? Using an [inflation calculator](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) and comparing $25 from five years ago (2021), to today's inflation rate, it bring us to $30.47 in 2026. Over five dollars in five years. I'm no mathematician or economist, so correct me if I'm wrong, but if inflation continues this trend, wouldn't enacting a $25 wage in 5 years still bring us below a minimum living wage? That is, if we'd started the fight for $25 five years ago, maybe it'd make sense to make it that number today. But by picking a target that makes sense today and pushing it 5 years into the future, doesn't that mean it'll be $5 weaker (or whatever change inflation causes) when it finally rolls out? Calculate future inflation before picking the target, then tie the number to inflation, damn it. These low numbers just mean we'll keep chasing new minimums and will always be left behind.
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@HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2026-04-29 11:29
Great now do a wealth tax next please.
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@Etterra@discuss.online 2026-04-28 18:55
These idiots need to stop setting the minimum wage to fixed values, and set them to calculations based off GDP and localized (by county) cost of living, with an annual (or better yet quarterly) refresh on the calculation. Maybe some other variables, I'm not an economist, but the point is to have it adjust without needing constant legislative flights.
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@Darcranium@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 20:55
Would be better to lower the maximum wage
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@jaykrown@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 09:59
I'm in Chicago, I just recently put in my 2 weeks at work because I was given additional responsibilities with no raise in pay. I told them I expected $25 an hour up from $19.50 an hour because I would effectively be taking on the responsibilities of an entire other role in the company which was being integrated into my workflow. They couldn't do it. So now I'm looking for a job that actually pays $25 now because that's the bare minimum for a living wage today.
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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-04-28 21:19
For people who want the details: > Companies with more than $1 billion gross revenue or more than 500 employees would be scheduled to increase their minimum pay to $25/hour by 2031, while smaller employers would be on a longer timeline to reach $25/hour by 2038. AKA no instant price shock > To ensure wages don’t lag again in the following years, the bill also requires the minimum wage to automatically grow each year to reach the equivalent of two-thirds the national median hourly wage. This isn't adjusted to *inflation,* but the median national hourly wage tends to reflect a very similar trend to inflation as measured by the CPI, but lags behind a bit. If the base minimum wage was raised like this, it would bring that stat much more on par with inflation, if not higher than it as it stands now. > It also eliminates the subminimum wage, which is paid to tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities. FINALLY! Just because you receive tips, are younger, or have a disability, you shouldn't be paid less than someone else if you've still gotten hired to do the job. You might be familiar with the *tipped* subminimum wage, which is where, if you receive tips from your job, instead of the $7.25/hr minimum wage, you can get paid as low as $2.13/hr as long as your tips make up the difference to bring you to at least $7.25. This is one reason why so many places want you to tip now. The person doesn't get *extra* money, you just **subsidize their employer paying them less out of their pocket.** ...buuuuuuuuuut there's also a lowered minimum wage for disabled people... with literally no actual minimum. It's why one Goodwill was at one point paying a guy **$0.22/hr**: https://www.cnbc.com/2013/06/21/some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour.html If I didn't know how screwed up America is, I'd assume that had to be satire, but nope, it's real. Subminimum wages being abolished is great.
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@KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 09:22
> The bill is cosponsored by Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants who, she said, worked multiple minimum-wage jobs just to get by. They said "a pair" so I'm dropping that for the Illinois folks.
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@orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-28 20:16
By the time they pass this, we'll need $50/hour minimum.
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@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-28 18:24
Beautiful, love to see it. Don't forget to tie it to inflation. My ideal is 3% or cpi, whichever is greater
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@nixukty@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 03:01
genuine question, im trying to learn something. i do agree that higher wages are necessary for the current economic climate, and that raising the minimum should come with other, more in-demand jobs having their wages/salaries raised as well. however, would this worsen prices? obviously most companies could probably stomach the cost, but they would probably raise prices anyway to reclaim their original revenue stream. and then, since prices increased, a higher minimum wage would be necessary to survive in the new climate. what happens next?
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@DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 18:40
It’s a great idea but it’ll never pass
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@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 18:40
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@crandlecan@mander.xyz 2026-04-28 19:26
Should be about 40 usd, minimum.
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@NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 15:37
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 21:15
Without restrictions on rent increases , that's just going to increase inflation. That's what always happens. When minimum wage goes up, every single industry thinks they deserve that extra money.
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@oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 23:22
This would be super great, therefore it won't happen. There is no hope.
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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 18:56
Just peg it. Treating it as a moving target dies nothing.
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@Tetragrade@leminal.space 2026-04-28 20:31
Oh my god not this shit again.
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@trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2026-04-29 05:20
I'm going to be honest: this is a _terrible_ idea before the midterms (which, let's face it, are likely to happen rigged)
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 03:07
Why does this has to be regulated on federal level and not by the states?
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-04-29 02:08
Which party is fighting to abolish the wage system?
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@DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 20:47
*"What if we still had a guilded age with huge inequalities and corruption, but workers got paid ever so slightly more"* ....as if all of this is a simple income inequality problem. Most billionaires don't even register as having an income.
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@panthera_@lemmy.today 2026-04-28 19:28
The bill is stupid. Taxes will have to be raised to pay for it.