Debate on minimum wage increase continues as Capito introduces new bill
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February 25, 2021 - 6:09 pm
A moving billboard in support of raising minimum wage to $15 a hour was spotted in Charleston on Thursday.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As a mobile billboard pushing support for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 circled the Charleston office of U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday, she announced she was part of a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.
Capito announced she joined Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to introduce the Higher Wages for American Workers Act. The bill gradually raises the federal minimum wage to $10 over four years, and then indexes it to inflation every two years.