USA Today: $15 minimum wage increase can't go in COVID relief legislation, Senate official rules
By Ledyard King
USA TODAY, Feb 25, 2021
Backers of a push to raise the federal hourly minimum wage to $15 suffered a key loss Thursday after a Senate official ruled the controversial measure cannot be considered as part of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package making its way through Congress. ...
Rebecca Hamilton, co-CEO of New Hampshire-based W.S. Badger Company, which makes skincare products, told the [House Small Business] committee that paying her employees no less than $15 an hour has helped her small firm.
"This approach has enabled us to spend virtually zero dollars on...