Over 200,000 workers are seeing a pay bump today as 2 states and DC up their minimum wages

Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, to call on Congress to pass the $15 federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill.
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Nevada and Oregon, along with Washington DC, are set to raise their minimum wages today.
Those raises will directly benefit over 200,000 workers, most of whom are women.
In 2021, a record number of states and jurisdictions are raising