Prefer gradual, locally responsive minimum-wage increases

Amodei preferred Nevada’s phased approach to minimum-wage increases over a single federal rate applied uniformly across the country. Nevada’s law raised wages by 75 cents each year, taking employee health benefits into account, toward different hourly rates for workers with and without benefits. He said he was open to raising the federal minimum wage but wanted details about the rate and rationale considered first.

Context: The phased schedule described is Nevada law, not a federal proposal; Amodei expressed openness to a federal increase without naming a target rate.

In their own words

I’d much prefer that approach than the federal government going, ‘Here’s the number and by the way, one size fits all,’

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On the Record: Congressional incumbent Mark Amodei on elections ... ↗

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