Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) described his first legislative loss with a wide smile and optimism about the rest of his proposals.
A key piece of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s anti-poverty agenda is all but certain to fail in the legislature this year, but the new Democratic governor is still claiming a win.
Moore, a rising star in the Democratic Party who took office in January, noted an accelerated hike to $15 an hour represents delivering on a campaign promise. The governor has made “ending child poverty” a top priority.As his indexing proposal started to hit public friction in February, Moore said: “There is no issue that’s going to be more important,” later adding, “We know this is going to be a fight.
Moore ran on a “Leave No One Behind” platform that included closing the racial wealth gap and reducing child poverty. He argued that even in its scaled back form, the bills that are advancing through the legislature represent “the most full assault on child poverty in this state’s history.” But key Democrats, who hold a supermajority in the legislature, were not persuaded to give up the power to set the minimum wage.
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