A pair of progressive Democrats unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour, considered the bare minimum a single adult needs to meet the cost of living in much of the US.
The Living Wage For All Act is the first bill to be introduced by the newly sworn-in Rep. Analilia Mejía (D-NJ), who won a special election earlier this month after helping to lead the fight for a $15 minimum wage in her home state of New Jersey.
Shouldn’t this be resolved on state level? Don’t you vote on local politicians every few years? Minimum wage seems like part of local economic policy that should be decided based on local factors. Like cost of living and competitiveness of local economy.
Not with the broken system we have in place now, so many times the citizens vote for something then the politicians just change it, Americans in aggregate are not very good at understanding politics and tend to be easily swayed by anger.
And the fix is to rely on exactly identical broken system except on federal level?