Harrisburg, PA — This morning Governor Tom Wolf is releasing a plan to help Pennsylvania residents recover from the pandemic. The governor is calling the recovery framework paramount in the recovery process and is pushing for fair, family sustaining wages for all Pennsylvanians. That would increase the minimum wage for all residents to $12/hour with a path to increasing that number to $15/hour and would provide additional hazard pay to essential workers amid the pandemic. Gov. Wolf says the state will work to enact better employee protection standards that would protect workers from losing their job if they have to...
