{"id":10558,"date":"2019-07-30T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/two-thirds-of-americans-favor-raising-federal-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T01:41:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:41:24","slug":"two-thirds-of-americans-favor-raising-federal-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2019\/07\/30\/two-thirds-of-americans-favor-raising-federal-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of Americans favor raising federal minimum wage to $15 an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/04\/22\/most-americans-support-a-15-federal-minimum-wage\/\">See this post<\/a> for more recent findings on views of a $15 minimum wage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a wide margin, Americans say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. But there is a deep partisan divide in views of this proposed policy \u2013 a version of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/32d0abbffc4b4982b75f0a8f166fcbe9\">recently passed<\/a> the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, though it is unlikely to be taken up by the GOP-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two-thirds of Americans (67%) support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, including 41% who say they strongly favor such an increase, according to a Pew Research Center survey <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/PP_2019.06.19_Political-Discourse_TOPLINE.pdf\">conducted this spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-318139\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FT_19.08.30_MinimumWage_Large-majority-Democrats-favor-increasing-federal-minimum-wage_2.png\" alt=\"Large majority of Democrats favor increasing the federal minimum wage\" width=\"310\" height=\"348\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are largely united in backing a $15 an hour federal minimum wage: 86% favor this, including nearly six-in-ten (59%) who say they <em>strongly <\/em>support it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican opinion on this issue is more divided, but a majority of Republicans and Republican leaners \u2013 57% \u2013 oppose raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, including nearly three-in-ten (29%) who say they are strongly against it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/labor-and-employment\/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx\">many states have higher minimum wages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!--more--><\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-318138\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FT_19.08.30_MinimumWage_Large-majorities-women-blacks-Hispanics-favor-raising-minimum-wage_2.png\" alt=\"Large majorities of women, blacks and Hispanics favor raising the minimum wage\" width=\"420\" height=\"540\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Majorities of women and men, whites, blacks and Hispanics favor increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, though there are demographic differences in how widespread support for this policy is.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women are more likely than men to support raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour (72% vs. 61%, respectively). About nine-in-ten black Americans (93%) support this increase \u2013 including 80% who express strong support \u2013 compared with about three-quarters of Hispanics (73%) and six-in-ten whites.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a stark ideological gap in support for a $15 federal minimum wage among Republicans. Conservative Republicans oppose an increase by more than two-to-one (69% vs. 30%), but a majority of moderate and liberal Republicans (59%) favor such an increase.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, there are more modest ideological differences on this issue among Democrats. Overwhelming majorities of both liberal Democrats (91%) and conservative and moderate Democrats (82%) favor raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but liberal Democrats are substantially more likely to say they strongly favor this policy (68% vs. 51%).<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-318135\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FT_19.08.30_MinimumWage_Lower-income-Republicans-more-likely-others-GOP-back-federal-minimum-wage-increase.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"322\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Majorities across all income levels favor a $15 federal minimum wage. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of those with annual family incomes of less than $40,000 favor this increase, as does a narrower majority of those with family incomes of $75,000 or more (61%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least eight-in-ten Democrats across <em>all<\/em> income levels back this increase. In contrast, lower-income Republicans are more likely than those with higher incomes to support this proposal: 56% of Republicans with annual incomes of less than $40,000 say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, compared with 34% of Republicans with incomes of $75,000 or more.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are largely united in backing a $15 an hour federal minimum wage. 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