Donald Norcross is leading the charge to raise wages and grow our economy for America’s workers.
Raise wages and grow the economy for America's workers.
Occurrences
I support raising wages, growing jobs in high-skilled industries, and ensuring fair pay and safe workplaces for all.
I am calling for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage.
That’s why he works tirelessly to put South Jersey workers at the center of federal policymaking, ensuring everyone can get ahead in our economy.
Evidence
Campaign issue page says Norcross supports raising wages, growing jobs in high-skilled industries, and ensuring fair pay and safe workplaces; it also says he will keep fighting for workers and a higher federal minimum wage.
Norcross announced the Fair Wage Act of 2016, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and included a payroll tax cut for small businesses that raised wages early.
Congress.gov shows H.R. 582 was introduced to increase the federal minimum wage and that its latest action in the Senate was placement on the calendar after House passage; the bill did not become law.
The House Clerk records that H.R. 582 passed the House 231-199, and Norcross voted aye on the bill.
Norcross said the TIPS Act would eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped workers and called it a step toward giving workers a fair day's pay and more money in their pockets.
Norcross filed a discharge petition for the Faster Labor Contracts Act and said it would help improve wages, hours, and working conditions by speeding first contracts for new unions.
Assessments
Norcross made repeated, concrete federal legislative efforts to raise wages, including introducing the Fair Wage Act, voting for House passage of the Raise the Wage Act, and later introducing or advancing labor and tipped-wage bills. But the central promised outcome, a federal wage increase for America's workers, was not enacted, and the evidence does not show a completed federal policy outcome attributable to him that broadly raised wages and grew the economy. Because he seriously pursued the promise but did not deliver the outcome, this is best scored as not fulfilled with effort credit.
Norcross made concrete and repeated legislative efforts to raise wages, including introducing wage legislation, voting for the Raise the Wage Act when it passed the House in 2019, and later pursuing tipped-worker and union-contract legislation. However, the central promised outcome of raising wages through a higher federal minimum wage or comparable enacted federal wage policy was not delivered; H.R. 582 did not become law. Because there was serious legislative effort but the promised outcome failed, this is best classified as never with an effort badge.