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The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds

The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds

The last time the U.S. raised the federal minimum wage, Apple’s Siri hadn’t even been invented yet. July marked the 17th full year in which the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25, the think tank Center for Economic and Policy Research... Read more.

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