The Republican-controlled Senate has rejected a minimum-wage hike – again.
U.S. senators draw salaries of $162,100 a year. The minimum wage is $5.15 hour. If my rusty math is correct, that’s $10,300 a year. Try living on that anywhere outside a cardboard box under a freeway ramp.
In addition to a salary fit for a prince, senators also get endless perks -- health and life insurance, pensions, travel expenses, and office expenses ranging up to $2 million, etc.
The minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 1997. Congress has given itself seven pay raises since than, totaling $28,000 for senators.
The vote was 51 against the hike and 49 for. The 51 voting against were all Republicans. Surprise, surprise.
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