WASHINGTON—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on March 11 that Democrats would continue to fight for raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour after a failed attempt to include it in President Joe Biden’s economic rescue plan. Senate Democrats removed the proposal to raise the minimum wage from the rescue plan, after the Senate parliamentarian on Feb. 25 ruled that the provision was not eligible to be included in the relief bill. “We will persist with the minimum wage,” Pelosi told reporters during a press conference on March 11. “A low, substandard minimum wage is corporate welfare. It’s subsidizing the private sector not to reward work,” she said. “The taxpayer is subsidizing the low minimum wage for the private sector” through programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, and housing assistance, she added. Increasing the federal wage floor was a major sticking point in a push for the $1.9 trillion …