Delaware legislators on Tuesday introduced a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from $9.25 to $15 by 2025. Last raised in 2019, Delaware’s minimum wage currently sits $2 above the federal mark. The bill would raise the wage to $10.50 per hour in 2022, followed by $11.75 in 2023, $13.25 in 2024 and $15 in 2025. The measure has support from all 14 Senate Democrats, with 18 of the 26 House Democrats listed as co-sponsors. It needs 11 votes in the Senate and 21 in the House. Gov. John Carney is in favor of it.
- Gee, I wonder if they are going to introduce a bill to give state pensioners a raise at the same time. State pensioners haven’t had a raise in more than five years. Cost of living has risen significantly since they last had a raise. If $15 is the minimum wage, what will that do to the quality of life for pensioners? — Mary Grampp Brown
- By then, the cost of living will be even higher than it is now. But lawmakers in Dover, if they get a chance, would give themselves a raise overnight. Because they’ve done it before. And it was in the thousands of dollars, not mere pennies. — Willie Preacher
- Whoever came up with the $15/hour figure anyway? Let’s change it to $50/hour. — Matthew Mancari
- A living wage is not too much to ask for. — Amber Scarborough
- Why would people actually be mad about minimum wage going up? The cost of living has gone up. — Kasie Bell
- What better way to tell the world you have zero understanding of economics. Support a minimum-wage law! — Rob Holley
- It’ll never happen. Pistol Pete Schwartzkopf will assign it to the chamber lapdog committee. It will never reach the floor of the House for a vote. Without Republicans like Schwartzkopf, the state could actually be a decent place. — Tommy Bou
