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D.C. Workers Lend Support to $15 Minimum Wage, Raise the Wage Act

As part of weekly Moral Mondays initiated by the Poor People’s Campaign, on Monday, Feb. 8, essential workers across the country held socially distanced rallies in celebration of the Raise the Wage Act – legislation that would end the subminimum wage for tipped workers and raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour that’s included in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 package.