fight for 15
Six states — California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Washington — will be at or above $15 per hour.
The Republican-led state joins a list of mostly Democratic states on a path to $15 per hour.
The wage floor in California and New York will hit $15 for many workers in 2022.
The last hike came early in former President Barack Obama’s first term.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The president's plan will hike the federal government's wage floor significantly in 2022.
Top Senate Democrats will huddle on Tuesday in an attempt to unify around a path toward hiking the federal minimum wage.
An estimated 27 million workers would see raises, though there would be 1.4 million fewer jobs.
They control all the levers of power, but have no room for error.
What Biden decides to do about Peter Robb could be a bellwether for how he governs -- as a moderate consensus-builder or a hard-nosed progressive.
But even if Democrats win both Senate races next month, they still need additional moderate members to back their $15-an-hour plan.