US EditionKentucky Minimum Wage Now Half its Previous Peak, and Below Poverty Line - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
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Kentucky Minimum Wage Now Half its Previous Peak, and Below Poverty Line - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
As of this week, it has been 16 years since the minimum wage was increased. Failure to increase this threshold has left working Kentuckians with a wage floor less than half of what it once was and driven it below the poverty line for a full-time worker. In purchasing power, the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is at a 75 year low. For the dozens of states, including Kentucky, that have failed to take their own action to boost the minimum wa…
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