A delivery person in a mask waits outside a pizza restaurant on December 5, 2020, in New York City’s Upper West Side. | Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Democrats are doing a lot to help workers. They can — and should — go further.

April, who works at a pet shop in Minneapolis, makes $11.75 an hour. She loves her job, and it pays better than the federal minimum wage, but not by much. She and her partner get by. They still don’t make enough money to afford a car, but they can manage rent, their phones, and internet, and support their 12-year-old daughter.

Her partner lost his job as a body piercer when the pandemic hit. He went on unemployment insurance for a while, and he and April finally found health insurance through a public assistance program. It was more consistent income