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Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday joined Democrats in the General Assembly to lay out a plan to raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 an hour effective in July. From there, he said, the wage would be raised 50 cents a year until it reaches $15 by July 2027.
“Our commonwealth’s essential workers deserve better,” Wolf said during a virtual news conference. “Pennsylvania workers are being left behind, and all of us are suffering for it.”
Wolf was joined by State Sen. Christine Tartaglione, D-Philadelphia County, and State Rep. Patty Kim, D-Dauphin , as well as a Harrisburg business owner to offer support for the plan. Tartaglione and Kim are supporting bills in the Senate and House, respectively, to raise the minimum wage, and both have penned letters to Pennsylvania lawmakers in Congress, asking them to support federal measures to raise the wage.