{"id":143140,"date":"2025-06-14T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143140"},"modified":"2025-06-14T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:20:21","slug":"schlossberg-pa-house-passes-bill-to-increase-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143140","title":{"rendered":"Schlossberg: PA House passes bill to increase minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, June 11\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0State Rep. Mike Schlossberg said the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill today that would raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania for the first time in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty other states, including all of Pennsylvania\u2019s neighboring states, have higher minimum wages.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Pennsylvania\u2019s minimum wage has not increased since 2009 is astounding.\u00a0Just because Taylor Swift was topping charts in 2009, doesn\u2019t mean Pennsylvania\u2019s workers deserve the same minimum wage in 2025,\u201d Schlossberg said. \u201cEvery state around us has increased their minimum wage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill (H.B. 1549) would increase the minimum wage with a county-specific schedule beginning in 2026, with every worker reaching a base level pay of $12 an hour by 2028. The wage would be tied to the consumer price index starting in 2029. Additionally, the minimum wage for tipped employees would be set at 60% of the minimum wage for the applicable county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2024 election told us stagnant wages and increased costs cannot meet the needs of our families and voters reject \u2018do nothing\u2019 approaches. It is impossible to work a full-time job earning minimum wage, and afford any sort of adequate housing, let alone pay for basic needs, plan for retirement or further your education.\u00a0In the end, workers earning higher wages mean higher spending which means a better bottom line for businesses,\u201d Schlossberg said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now goes to the state Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAmy Giancoli Hartman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, June 11\u00a0\u2013\u00a0State Rep. Mike Schlossberg said the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill today that would raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania for the first time in more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schlossberg: PA House passes bill to increase minimum wage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106890,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143140","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\/06\/schlossberg-mike-rep.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143140"}],"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=143140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}