via thehill:
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and 17 House Democrats, including several Congressional Black Caucus members, proposed legislation Wednesday that would increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour.
Jackson said his bill, the Catching Up to 1968 Act, is needed to help low-income workers “catch up” to inflation, which he said is eating away at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. He also said it would give [...]
