Democrats see doomed minimum-wage plan as election boost

WASHINGTON—The Senate is expected this week to take up a long-stalled push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a measure that is likely to be defeated but one that Democrats see as a winner on the campaign trail. The idea of raising the $7.25-an-hour minimum wage is politically popular, according to polls, but Republicans hope the coming debate will allow them to promote their view that raising the wage will lead to job losses. For several months, Democratic leaders have wanted to bring the minimum-wage increase to the floor but they have delayed it until this week, moving the debate closer to the period when re-election campaigns heat up. The maneuvering shows how the minimum-wage debate has become more complicated on Capitol Hill, even as President Barack Obama has tried to jump-start the debate.

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