Cuomo says he'll raise NYC's minimum wage to $20 an hour if elected mayor

Democratic New York City mayoral campaigner and erstwhile Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that, if elected, helium would question to rise the city's minimum wage to $20 an hr by 2027.

"The businesspeople are going to say, 'Oh, no, you can't rise the minimum wage, due to the fact that that's going to dilatory the economy," Cuomo said astatine a run rally, addressing prospective critics of specified a plan. 

"Baloney – not to usage different word.

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Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to rise New York City's minimum wage to $20 an hr if elected mayor. (Handout)

"Their pundits are going say, 'Oh, it's going beryllium excessively hard to get it passed politically. The politicians are going to beryllium acrophobic to get it passed," the former governor added. "Well, I archer you this, they're wrong. And you cognize however we cognize they're wrong? Because we did it before, and we're going to bash it again.

"We raised it to $15, the highest minimum wage successful the United States," helium noted, apt touting a instrumentality helium signed during his 2nd word arsenic governor. "And what happened erstwhile we did it? The system went up, not down. We protected tiny businesses with a taxation credit.

New York raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour, past the highest successful the U.S., erstwhile Cuomo was governor. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

"And if you had indexed that $15, you cognize what it would beryllium today?" Cuomo posited. "Twenty dollars — that is the just wage, and that's what we want. And that's what we're going to get back."

A nationalist relations steadfast linked to the Cuomo run did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

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Cuomo slammed "businesspeople" and governmental naysayers successful his transportation Wednesday. (Reuters/David 'Dee' Delgado)

The city's minimum wage was raised doubly successful the past 2 years. In 2024, it was raised to $16 an hr from the $15 antecedently acceptable successful 2018, during Cuomo's governorship. This year, determination was different 50-cent summation to the existent $16.50 an hour.

Cuomo leads a crowded Democratic primary tract successful his bid to go the Big Apple's mayor, and helium is astir intimately trailed by authorities Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed antiauthoritarian socialist.

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