Webraising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is a campaign promise by joe biden. What do we know about the effectiveness and limitations of this measure? Weba true living wage that supports a basic standard of living without food and housing insecurity would be between $20 and $26 or more per hour depending on the state. Webdozens of states are raising the minimum wage. Npr's rachel martin talks to gina schafer, ceo of ace hardware, who decided to implement the pay bump across. Webprogressives were outraged after the white house acquiesced to a senate parliamentarian's ruling that a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour could not be. The fact is that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7. 25 since 2009. It would be close to $9 an hour if it had kept.
