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Majority
of
Americans
support
$15
minimum
wage,
Reuters/Ipsos
poll
shows
Reuters
Staff
reuters.com
WASHINGTON
- A
majority
of
Americans
support
the idea
of more
than
doubling
the
minimum
wage to
$15 per
hour, a
Reuters/Ipsos
poll
showed
on
Thursday
as
Senate
Democrats
await a
ruling
on
whether
they can
tuck
that
measure
into a
$1.9
trillion
COVID-19
relief
bill.
Democrats,
who
narrowly
control
the
House of
Representatives
and
Senate,
are
trying
to pass
the
progressive
policy
without
Republican
votes
through
a
maneuver
known as
reconciliation,
which
allows
them to
act with
just a
simple
51-vote
majority
rather
than the
chamber’s
normal
60-vote
requirement.
The
Senate’s
parliamentarian
on
Thursday
is
expected
to
decide
whether
the
rules
will
allow
them to
use the
coronavirus
spending
bill to
enact a
sweeping
wage
policy.
Regardless
of the
ruling,
the idea
of
raising
the
minimum
wage to
$15 by
2025
from its
current
$7.25 is
broadly
popular,
a
Reuters/Ipsos
poll
found.
Some 59%
of
respondents
said
they
supported
the
idea,
with 34%
opposing
it.
When
told
that
“raising
the
minimum
wage
should
lift
some
families
out of
poverty,
but
government
economists
also
expect
it could
eliminate
some low
income
jobs,
potentially
making
some
families
worse
off,”
55% of
respondents
said
they
supported
it.
About
40% of
American
adults
said
that
they
would
benefit
– either
personally
or
through
a member
of their
family –
if the
U.S.
raised
the
federal
minimum
wage.
Even
if the
Senate
parliamentarian,
Elizabeth
MacDonough,
rules
that the
minimum
wage can
be
passed
through
reconciliation,
it will
not
change
the fact
that the
proposal
faces an
uphill
battle
in the
Senate.
Democrats
are not
united
in
support
with two
of their
number -
Joe
Manchin
of West
Virginia
and
Kyrsten
Sinema
of
Arizona
-
against
the
idea.
There is
broader
support
in the
Senate
to
raising
the
minimum
wage by
a lesser
amount,
and not
through
reconciliation.
Two
Senate
Republicans,
Tom
Cotton
and Mitt
Romney,
on
Tuesday
proposed
increasing
the
minimum
wage to
$10 an
hour.
The
Reuters/Ipsos
poll was
conducted
online,
in
English,
throughout
the
United
States
between
Feb. 18
and Feb.
24. It
gathered
responses
from
4,430
adults,
including
2,158
who
identified
as
Democrats
and
1,482
who
identified
as
Republicans.
The poll
has a
credibility
interval,
a
measure
of
precision,
of plus
or minus
3
percentage
points.
Reporting
by Chris
Kahn and
Susan
Cornwell;
Editing
by Scott
Malone
and
Alistair
Bell and
Chizu
Nomiyama
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