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This year especially, voters are sympathetic to minimum wage workers on the front lines during a pandemic, an economist says.
It would be the first increase at the federal level since 2009, but Senate Republicans aren’t likely to consider the bill.
The last time federal minimum wage went up was in July of 2009.
We check in on the employer side of the minimum wage debate to see how policies impact businesses.
Is federal minimum wage still a thing?
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Congress hasn’t raised the federal minimum wage since 2009, but many states and localities have.
