A $9.50 minimum wage by 2022? The Pa. Senate just passed it. Now it’s up to the House.
For the first time in more than a decade, a Pennsylvania legislative chamber has voted to increase the state’s minimum wage — this time from the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour to $9.50. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Christine M. Tartaglione, D-Philadelphia, passed 42-7. Every Democrat and the majority of Republicans supported the bill. … Read more