Raise Workers Wages Act of 2019

=AN ACT Raising the minimum wage.=

January 5, 2020

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Raise Workers’ Wages Act of 2019.”

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE. The federal minimum wage shall be 140% of the poverty line for a family of four, adjusted on a county by county basis, and tied to the consumer price index.

SEC. 3. CEO-WORKER PAY RATIO CAP. Corporate Pay Ratio Caps.—The highest earning executive or member in any and all businesses operating or headquartered within the United States shall not earn more than twenty-five times what the median employee or contractor for that business earns.