A new poll found that 74% of voters support raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, almost three times the current level. A majority of respondents said they “strongly support” the proposal.
Workers who assist people with disabilities in their homes through the In-Home Supportive Services program urge the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to increase their pay on November 1, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.Amid the longest period in Congressional history without any raising of the federal minimum wage, new polling finds that the vast majority of voters not only support raising the minimum wage, but also nearly tripling it.
This support includes majorities of voters across the political spectrum. Support is strongest among Democrats, with 89 percent saying that they favor raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour. But independents and Republicans back the idea as well, with 74 percent and 60 percent support from both groups, respectively.
The polling comes amid a 14-year stretch since the last time the federal minimum wage was raised, with its real value reachingin 67 years. The minimum wage is not a living wage – the wage required to afford basic needs like shelter – nearly anywhere in the U.S. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology living wage calculator, in a typical family of four with two adults and two children,
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