Taking advantage of their newly minted majority, Democrats have achieved a longtime progressive policy goal.

Raising wages has already proven to be widely supported and reasonable around the country — and not just in major cities or liberal-heavy states.

Republican Dave McCormick thinks a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is just fine.

They are among the 70,000 federal employees who will see their wages increase.

Glenn Youngkin was an executive with the Carlyle Group when a company it owned reportedly used legal loopholes to pay workers far below minimum wage.

The GEO Group maintained that the detainees were not employees under the Washington Minimum Wage Act.

The House GOP’s campaign arm launched an attack against Democrats after a restaurant chain announced higher wages for its workers.

‘By relying on detainee labor, GEO avoided the cost of hiring non-detainee workers and unjustly pocketed the savings and resulting profits,’ charged the Washington state attorney general’s office.

Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty said cartels were marketing Biden’s relief efforts and push for a higher federal minimum wage to recruit immigrants to make the trek to the U.S.-Mexico border.

There are an estimated 5 million contract workers in the federal government.

‘It’s not enough to just say, well, we’re committed to this. We want to get it done.’

The majority of ride-hailing service drivers work full-time but are ineligible for employer-provided benefits.

Individual states are pushing for legislation to raise state minimum wages after congressional efforts to raise the federal floor have stalled.

By narrowing the definition of ’employee,’ Republicans would leave a lot of American workers without labor protections.

They claim that $10 an hour is a livable wage. It’s not.

Sen. Josh Hawley doesn’t like ‘socialism,’ but he wants American taxpayers to do what employers won’t.

‘A drastic $15 federal minimum wage hike during a global pandemic would be the wrong path,’ tweeted Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), whose state has a $7.25 an hour minimum wage. 

The Arkansas Republican wants to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10. His own state’s is already $11.

Sens. Tom Cotton and Mitt Romney want to pair a wage hike with an attack on undocumented workers.

A group of wealthy Americans has come out in support of the latest effort to increase workers’ wages, saying doing so would benefit everyone.

Congressional Republicans say increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 will cost millions of jobs. Experts say that’s not quite true.

Ballot measures containing progressive policies were approved by voters across the country.

McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales.

‘Corporate power is a threat to racial justice.’

Also: The governor of Pennsylvania wants to raise the state’s minimum wage, and Michigan is helping businesses procure protective equipment.

Also: Organizers with the Biden campaign unionize, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, gives a boost to a statewide effort to stop LGBTQ discrimination.

Also, voting rights were expanded Georgia, and the Confederacy suffered a blow in Virginia.

Virginians could see new movement on gun background checks and voting rights if Democrats win big on Tuesday.

New Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia is already pushing a reverse Robin Hood scheme to let restaurant owners effectively take tips from servers to save themselves money.

In a week of somber news, progressives still scored several wins for people across the country.