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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Minimum Wage

Minimum wage: Congress stalls, states act, By Jeanne Sahadi, April 28, 2014, CNNMoney: “Odds remain low that Congress will raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage anytime soon. But the issue will be revisited in coming days as the Senate takes up a bill to increase it to $10.10 an hour. And President Obama and congressional Democrats plan to push the issue on the campaign trail ahead of the November mid-term elections. In the meantime, many states have made moves to raise their own minimum wages over the next year…”