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We are desperate : Advocates demand Congress pass $15 minimum wage increase, but its prospects are murky Michael Collins, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – Pam Garrison worked much of her life in low-paying retail jobs, earning wages so paltry that they barely covered even the most basic necessities such as food and shelter. “We don’t live – we survive,” Garrison, a retiree from Fayette County, West Virginia, said of minimum-wage workers. “And that’s not good enough in America.” Garrison and other proponents of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour are pressuring President Joe Biden and Congress to boost the hourly pay scale as part of a $1.9 trillion package aimed at providing relief to Americans recovering from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

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