U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, speaking on January 14: “There should be a national minimum wage of US$15 an hour.
No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line.”
In Mexico, the minimum wage for the greater part of the nation was raised on January 1 to 141.70 pesos per day, which translates to US$0.89, an hour, based on an eight-hour working day.