03/18/2013 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release)
Washington – Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, offered support for increasing the minimum wage during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing last week. As reported by the Huffington Post, Warren discussed the results of a study that suggests $22 would be about the federal minimum wage today had it stayed in line with worker productivity throughout time.
Warren is quoted in the report as stating while speaking at the hearing, “If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour.”
The issue of whether the federal minimum wage should be increased to over $10 an hour was a point of discussion during the meeting.
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