{"id":148501,"date":"2026-03-25T22:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:49:13","slug":"pa-house-passes-bill-to-raise-minimum-wage-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148501\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. House passes bill to raise minimum wage | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the state&#8217;s minimum wage for the first time since 2009, moving the proposal to the Senate for further consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $11 per hour starting next year then to $13 in 2028, and $15 in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also gives counties the option to adopt a $15 minimum wage sooner.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now moves to the Senate, which has not acted on three previous minimum wage legislations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the state&#8217;s minimum wage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,529,3613,37933,28,4519],"class_list":["post-148501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bill","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-minimum-wage","tag-pennsylvania","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}