Economic Sustainability. A Living wage. After graduating from public schools, we need to provide workforce training, and protected living wages. Right now, it's $7.25 an hour. It hasn't budged in 13 years. The governor's plan calls for a jump to $12 an hour July 1, with increases of 50 cents an hour every year, until the minimum wage reaches $15 an hour. Pennsylvania has six neighboring states and has the lowest minimum wage in the mid-Atlantic: $7.25. The highest is New York, where the minimum wage is $13.20 an hour. I will fight for an actual living wage that supports and benefits working class citizens.