{"id":167372,"date":"2021-02-24T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167372"},"modified":"2021-02-24T07:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:58:43","slug":"romney-cotton-to-propose-10-minimum-wage-with-mandatory-e-verify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-cotton-to-propose-10-minimum-wage-with-mandatory-e-verify\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, Cotton To Propose $10 Minimum Wage With Mandatory E-Verify"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fromney-cotton-to-propose-10-minimum-wage-with-mandatory-e-verify%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Romney-1-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) will soon introduce legislation that would begin to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The legislation, which has not yet been released, would gradually increase the federal minimum wage over a period of four years beginning next year and then index the minimum wage to inflation, according to a joint statement the senators released Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor millions of Americans, the rising cost of living has made it harder to make ends meet, but the federal minimum wage has not been increased in more than ten years,\u201d said Romney. \u201cOur legislation would raise the floor for workers without costing jobs and increase the federal minimum wage to $10, automatically raising it every two years to match the rate of inflation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, businesses with fewer than 20 employees would increase their wages at a slower rate than other businesses. During the same period of time, the youth minimum wage would increase to $6 per hour, from $4.25 per hour. The proposal would also prevent a federal wage increase from going into affect during the COVID-19 emergency.<\/p>\n<p><span>A second component of the legislation would make use of E-Verify to curb the number of employers providing jobs to illegal immigrants. This component would \u201c<\/span><span>preserve American jobs for legal workers and remove incentives for increased illegal immigration,\u201d according to a proposal summary released by the Utah senator\u2019s office.<\/span> <span>\u201cWe must create opportunities for American workers and protect their jobs, while also eliminating one of the key drivers of illegal immigration,\u201d said Romney.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The proposal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romney.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-02\/higher%20wages%20for%20american%20workers%20act_one%20pager.pdf\">summary<\/a> further states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Higher Wages for American Workers Act would support a strong labor market for American workers by gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $10 and mandating E-Verify to ensure rising wages go to legally authorized workers. Rather than destroy 1.4 million jobs like a $15 minimum wage, this proposal would raise wages for 3.5 million workers without harming the very workers it\u2019s intended to protect.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the E-Verify requirement, the legislation would set aside $100 million in automatic funding to ensure E-Verify remains active in the event of a government shut-down. The proposal would also increase penalties, both civil and criminal, to employers who \u201chire unauthorized aliens and\/or violate I-9 paperwork requirements,\u201d according to the proposal summary.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAmerican workers today compete against millions of illegal immigrants for too few jobs with wages that are too low \u2014 that\u2019s unfair,\u201d said Cotton in a statement.<\/span> <span>\u201cEnding the black market for illegal labor will open up jobs for Americans. Raising the minimum wage will allow Americans filling those jobs to better support their families. Our bill does both.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes amidst reports that President Joe Biden has been privately telling Democratic officials that his idea of increasing the minimum wage to $15 through a COVID-19 relief bill no longer has a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want this in there but it just doesn\u2019t look like we can do it because of reconciliation,\u201d Biden told a group of elected Democratic governors and mayors last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898\">reports Politico<\/a>,which cited a person in the room. \u201cI\u2019m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>T<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>he Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) will soon introduce legislation that would begin to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour.\u00a0 The legislation, which has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274097,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Romney-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Romney, Cotton To Propose $10 Minimum Wage With Mandatory E-Verify","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Romney-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Romney, Cotton To Propose $10 Minimum Wage With Mandatory E-Verify","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}