As a candidate for president and in the early days of his administration, President Joe Biden made raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour a cornerstone of his campaign. Fighting for his job in 2024, however, Biden has all but stopped discussing it as part of his platform early in the campaign, held back by a reluctant Congress and a challenging electoral map that could leave control of the government teetering on a knife's edge in next year's elections.
Weeks before the 2020 election, Biden unveiled an ambitious economic agenda with the nation's low-wage workers at its center. He pledged an end to sub-minimum wage salaries for those with disabilities, and a strengthening of benefits requirements for employers. He proposed an end to the tipped minimum wage. Most importantly, he adopted the rhetoric of "living wage" advocates who had long pushed for minimum earnings requirements they claimed would allow Americans to live with dignity, and reduce their reliance on public benefits.
"It's long past time we raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour," he tweeted February 2, 2021. "The American Rescue Plan will get it done."
But even with his party in control of Congress at the time, Biden failed to live up to that pledge.
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