“The fact is, if you look at who has kept us together for the past few months, almost a year since Covid’s invasion, these are people we didn’t think were worth $ 15 an hour. We need to pay people what they are worth and their value in this society means that they must receive a minimum wage that keeps them above the poverty line ”.
Dingell has long supported an increase in the minimum wage and, last month, she signed as a co-sponsor of the 2021 Salary Increase Act, introduced by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) On 26 January.
Scott’s bill would raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour over the next four years and mark the first time Congress has voted to raise the federal minimum wage since 2007, when it was raised to $ 7.25.