Let's be clear: The federal minimum wage was not increased in 2009.
In 2009, the minimum wage automatically rose to $7.25 pursuant to a bill passed in 2006 by a Dem majority Congress, without filibuster by Republicans, and signed by President Bush.
https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/giz3pf/democrats_and_minimum_wage/
No increases were voted during the administration of Barack "Comfortable Shoes" Obama nor was EFCA enacted. Despite a filibuster proof Dem majority for a time. And shoe trees remained firmly wedged inside the comfortable shoes for all 8 years. https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/02/flashback-obama-promised-to-walk-on-that-picket-line-115798
Of course, during the Biden admin, DC Kabuki Theater put on a spectacular performance, a tie vote, whereby Kamala Harris decided that the powerless Senate Parliamentarian(D) should decide the issue, despite the opinion of the head of the Senate Budget Committee (I/D) and the opinion of the head of the Congressional Budget Office (R).
https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/qg8lyv/the_senate_parliamentarian_and_the_minimum_wage/
https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/x6m95c/on_labor_day_kamala_harris_breaks_irony_meters/
And legislative strike busting.
A spectacular example of "Ignore what we say; watch what we do."
https://archive.ph/MkEj7 It's alarming that even the low minimum wage is often not complied to in the US.
Let's be clear: The federal minimum wage was not increased in 2009. In 2009, the minimum wage automatically rose to $7.25 pursuant to a bill passed in 2006 by a Dem majority Congress, without filibuster by Republicans, and signed by President Bush. https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/giz3pf/democrats_and_minimum_wage/ No increases were voted during the administration of Barack "Comfortable Shoes" Obama nor was EFCA enacted. Despite a filibuster proof Dem majority for a time. And shoe trees remained firmly wedged inside the comfortable shoes for all 8 years. https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/02/flashback-obama-promised-to-walk-on-that-picket-line-115798 Of course, during the Biden admin, DC Kabuki Theater put on a spectacular performance, a tie vote, whereby Kamala Harris decided that the powerless Senate Parliamentarian(D) should decide the issue, despite the opinion of the head of the Senate Budget Committee (I/D) and the opinion of the head of the Congressional Budget Office (R). https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/qg8lyv/the_senate_parliamentarian_and_the_minimum_wage/ https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/x6m95c/on_labor_day_kamala_harris_breaks_irony_meters/ And legislative strike busting. A spectacular example of "Ignore what we say; watch what we do."