What is it with these people that they keep pushing this minimum-wage horse squeeze?
The latest is from Pennsylvania, where a leftist Democrat (but I repeat myself) state senator is introducing a bill to raise the minimum wage in the Keystone State to $20.
A new proposal in Pennsylvania would increase the minimum wage to $20 per hour, making it the highest in the country.
State Sen. Christine Tartaglione, a Democrat, introduced legislation Tuesday that would increase the state’s $7.25 minimum wage, which is on par with the federal mark, to $20 per hour.
“Tellingly, $7.24/hr is the very definition of a poverty-level wage for a childless adult under the Department of Health and Human Services’ Poverty Guidelines and is even further below the threshold when factoring in children,” Tartaglione said in her memo.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth’s Department of Health and Human…
