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Federal Minimum Wage Increase, Boom or Bust?

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Federal Minimum Wage Increase, Boom or Bust?

I don’t know if a whole lot of people realize this because I haven’t seen much coverage about it, apart from Catherine Rampell’s blog post “Supporting a Minimum Wage Increase” over at the New York Times. Tomorrow the federal minimum wage increases fairly significantly, from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 hour. This increase was... »

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