Biden Caps Off First Year In Office By Raising Federal Minimum Wage To $15
President Biden is apparently topping off his first year in office with a minimum wage hike – but only for Federal employees (whose wages the White House has direct power to raise).
News of the wage hike was first reported by Axios, which noted that President Biden signed an executive order calling on the Office of Personnel Management (the federal government’s human resources agency) to produce a report on federal wages which ultimately recommended that the minimum be raised. That a group representing federal employees would recommend that their wages be raised probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Federal agencies have been ordered to raise the wages for government employees to a minimum of $15/hours, something Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Walmart’s Doug McMillon accomplished years ago (indeed, AMZN, one of the private sector’s biggest employers, has been forced to take its minimum even higher to attract talent during the US economy’s labor crunch).
But as far as a pre-midterm sop to the electorate goes, we suppose this will suffice. Democrats need all the votes they can get ahead of this year’s midterms, and federal employees are one of the most reliable sources of Democratic votes (for reasons that should be obvious to all). – READ MORE
Responses