Morals

A moral failure on the part of Congress and the president...a pox on both their houses!

Two efforts to raise the national minimum wage were defeated in
Congress Monday, with both Democrats and Republicans offering proposals
for increases that failed to win passage. The Democrats saw their plan
to raise the basic minimum from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 over the next 26
months fail first, as Republicans argued that the increase would
negatively impact the entry-level workers it's designed to help. Then
the Republicans presented an alternative for phasing in a more modest
$1.10 increase in two steps over 18 months. The minimum wage was last
raised in 1996.

(9 years later and they still can't see the pain this has caused.)