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Those hourly rates are tremendous news. You would remember the fear campaign conservatives ran over raising the minimum
wage. A sense of, wow, eight years ago, 2014: Yay Seattle, one of the cities that helped big-time to get the ball rolling.

Hundreds of Fast-Food Workers Striking for Higher Wages Are Arrested
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Ms. Henry said that the one-day strikes had already had some success, drawing attention to the prevalence of low wages and influencing decisions by Seattle to adopt a $15-an-hour minimum wage and San Francisco to consider one. In addition, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles this week proposed a $13.25-an-hour minimum wage for workers in his city.
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Republican's minimum wage flip-flops to boost election prospects
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Bernie Sanders Unveils A 12 Point Economic Plan To Break The Koch Oligarchs
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– Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty.
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10 Poverty Myths, Busted .. higher minimum wages would help ..
No, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads.
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3. Black dads are the problem. Among men who don't live with their children, black fathers are more likely .. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf .. than white or Hispanic dads to have a daily presence in their kids' lives.
4. Poor people are lazy. In 2004, there was at least one adult with a job in 60 percent of families .. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3894#_ftn3 .. on food stamps that had both kids and a nondisabled, working-age adult.
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Court ruling closes wage depressing loophole.
Federal appeals court ruling in SPLC case closes loophole, protects workers’ right to fair wages
"immigration on the whole has not led to fewer jobs for American workers. More significantly, they suggest that immigrants have had, at most,
a small .. http://www.nber.org/digest/apr09/w14683.html .. negative .. http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gperi/Papers/OP_april_2010.pdf ..
[gone] impact .. [California vs Ohio] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/business/yourmoney/16view.html .. on the wages of Americans
who compete with them most directly, those with a high school degree or less."
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