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How minimum are our wages?
Staff Report //August 2, 2019//
Listen to this articleNew Democratic Congressman Joe Cunningham made national news recently when he broke with the party faithful and rejected raising the national minimum wage by nearly 107%.
The proposal to go from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour across the board made Cunningham wince because, as he said, one size doesn’t fit all in the scope of a country as diverse as the U.S., and he feared that drastic of a change would hurt small businesses and job growth.
South Carolina follows the federal minimum wage law, but many states go their own way. We looked at some of the data behind the minimum wages in the Southeast and a few other places.
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