{"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:\/\/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 in solidarity with our workforce by voting to raise the minimum wage. \u201cWe owe it to our workers who keep our businesses running and economy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rep-Jeanne-McNeill.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}