House OKs $15 minimum wage

Friday, July 19, 2019

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats approved legislation Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour, but the bill has almost no chance in the Republican-controlled Senate.

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