His proposal to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour was perhaps the most newsworthy piece of President Biden’s “American Rescue Plan.”

In the last few weeks, the prospects of the increase actually being attainable as a piece of the coronavirus relief bill have looked dim. The input of some pretty important Democrats, Biden and key centrist Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia among them, established cause for doubt.