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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

State and City Minimum Wages

States push back against cities’ minimum-wage boosts, By Mark Peters, September 25, 2015, Wall Street Journal: “The nascent push by cities to raise their minimum wage is meeting resistance in a growing number of state capitols, opening a new front in the battle over the pay floor for the nation’s lowest-paid workers…”