Raising the minimum wage is a bipartisan issue

Source:  National Conference of State Legislature

(color-coded according to 2016 presidential election results)

Jobs report: 235K jobs added last month, unemployment rate falls to 4.7 percent.  (Chicago Tribune, 3/10/2017)

Minimum wage increases last year in 17 states and Washington, D.C., helped raise pay among the lowest-paid workers, the EPI found. Pay increases for the poorest 10 percent of workers were more than twice as high in states where the minimum wage rose as in states where it did not.  

At the start of 2017, minimum wages rose again in 19 states, a trend that might have helped raise pay last month.  [Plus Maryland and Oregon on July 1, 2017)

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