{"id":119859,"date":"2023-06-20T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119859"},"modified":"2023-06-20T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T02:16:12","slug":"mcneill-releases-statement-on-passage-of-minimum-wage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119859","title":{"rendered":"McNeill releases statement on passage of minimum wage bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, June 20 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Jeanne McNeill released a statement on today\u2019s passage of H.B. 1500 \u2013 the minimum wage bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives stood in solidarity with our workforce by voting to raise the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe it to our workers who keep our businesses running and economy flowing to pay them wages that reflect the current prices of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century, and I was glad to vote alongside my colleagues to get one step further toward that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This legislation would increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$11.00 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>$13.00 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>$15.00 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There would be annual cost-of-living increases beginning in 2027. The bill would also set the minimum wage for tipped workers at 60% of the hourly minimum wage \u2013 which has been stuck at $2.83 per hour since the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nDeclan Shaffer<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, June 20 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Jeanne McNeill released a statement on today\u2019s passage of H.B. 1500 \u2013 the minimum wage bill. \u201cToday, members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives stood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McNeill releases statement on passage of minimum wage bill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rep-Jeanne-McNeill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}