Biden on Nevada's $12 minimum wage bill: "It's long past time it should be $15"

“I know your Legislature is working to raise the minimum wage, but I think it’s long past $12. I think it’s long past time it should be $15 an hour across the United States of America,” Joe Biden said in Henderson Tuesday.

The former Vice President spoke to a wall-to-wall crowd of people at the Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 159 Union Hall in Henderson with a stump speech tailored toward America’s workers with a focus on corporate greed and income inequality.

It was the second time in as many days that a presidential candidate characterized a bill in the Nevada Legislature to raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2023 as inadequate. “It’s not enough,” New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday when asked about Nevada’s proposal.

Biden, making his first visit to Nevada since officially announcing his candidacy for the presidency April 25, ticked off a number of priorities. In addition to raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, Biden supported affordable housing, closing tax loopholes, and rolling back the tax cuts Trump and Republicans passed in 2017 that Biden said overwhelmingly helped the wealthy and corporations.

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