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Increasing the minimum wage: blocked by right-wing power on Capitol Hill, labor advocates win changes at the state level.(FEATURE)
MILLIONS OF WORKERS WILL BE GETTING A RAISE in 2007 and in the next two years as a result of increases in minimum wages in several states. The majority of these workers are people of color who work in restaurants, motels and other jobs in the low-wage service economy as a result of structural racism and class inequality. The state-level increases have come after decades of growing poverty and no action by the federal government. While the federal minimum wage is at its lowest real value in more than 50 years (at $5.15 an hour), Congress has failed to raise it since 1997. Today, a worker paid the federal minimum wage earns only $10,712 a year, well below the national poverty level of $16,000 a year for a family of three--which most analysts acknowledge is an artificially low threshold to being with.
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