The headline is an excerpt from a Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray authored item carried in the "Commentary" section of Strib online. This link.
That mainstream media is picking up the story may be the news in it. All the rest, the fact of the indecency of the level of the federal minimum wage, indecency and inadequacy, is already well known. Especially in the bottom income part of the 99%, that factual truth weighs heavy every hour every day.