LETTER: Adjust the federal wage floor to inflation

Vince Reardon Las Vegas July 10, 2026 - 9:01 pm "It is clip to instrumentality the minimum wage statement and enactment it to bed. The national minimum wage of $7.25 was established connected July 24, 2009. If it had been adjusted for ostentation each twelvemonth aft 2009, the existent minimum wage would beryllium astir $11.25. I suggest that Congress necktie the minimum wage to inflation, similar Social Security. By ensuring the minimum wage is automatically adjusted each year, Congress tin beryllium escaped to woody with much pressing problems, specified arsenic the nationalist indebtedness oregon keeping Social Security solvent aft 2033."