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From New York Times, I'm Michael Babbaro.

This is a daily.

Even as President Biden and Congressional Democrats celebrate a historic expansion

of the Social Safety Net with the passage of the stimulus bill, they acknowledge that

one key policy did not make it in.

A doubling of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Today, as Biden vows to do whatever it takes to get to $15, my colleague, Shira

Frankl, spoke with economics reporter Ben Kasselman about what a growing body of data

tells us might happen and might not happen if that occurs.

It's Wednesday, March 17th.

So Ben, first of all, what's the minimum wage and who earns it?

So the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

It's been set at that level since 2009.

And there are only about 400,000 workers who earn the federal minimum wage.

That's in 2019, which is not that many people, in part because it's been so long that many

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