he also introduced a bill that would a bump the national minimum wage to 15 an hour by 2020 151 hillary clinton today came out in support of new yorks plan to increase minimum wage for its fastfood workers to 15 an hour but the endorsement still places clinton well behind many of her democratic challengers on the issue clinton said the national minimum wage is a floor and it needs to be raised but noted that it can vary based on cost of living in different cities i think if you work 40 hours a week you have a right not be living in poverty sanders said earlier this week standing alongside hundreds of lowwage workers who walked out of food service and janitorial jobs at federal buildings in dc sanders who has centered his campaign on the fight against income inequality called on the president to act now and only award federal contracts to companies paying higher wages the cost of living in manhattan is different than little rock and many other places so new york and los angeles or seattle are right to go higher clinton added according to a cbs newsnew york times poll released in june while 71 percent support raising the minimum wage only 38 percent are in favor of requiring fast food chains and other hourly employers to pay workers at least 15 per hour but recent national polling suggests americans are not in favor of such a big hike though according to the same poll a small majority of democrats 56 percent support the idea jeb bush people need to work longer hours hillary clinton igs urge justice department to probe her emails while clintons support of the 15 minimum wage for some workers in new york is the furthest she has gone yet on the issue of minimum wage it still falls short of the bar set by some of her democratic rivals including sen bernie sanders ivermont and former maryland gov martin omalley both of whom have called for doubling the current federal minimum wage of 725 to 15 dollars an hour nationwide as governor he successfully signed a law increasing the state minimum wage to 1010 an hour but on the campaign trail he has repeatedly said he is favor of 15 dollars an hour and it will be i agree with new yorks proposal this week to raise wages for fast food workers to 15 an hour clinton said during a speech on corporate culture at new york university advocates of a higher minimum wage enjoyed at least one major victory just this week but leadership is about forging public consensusnot following it omalley has pushed this issue too some people will say this is hard to do on this issue we must lead with our progressive values to rebuild the american dream omalley said in the statement wednesday today we send a very loud message to the us congress and the president