"There are millions of workers in this country who are working literally on starvation wages, eight nine, ten bucks an hour," Sanderson Wednesday."Two years ago, we proposed a $15 an hour minimum wage as a result of inflation. $15 is now the equivalent of $17."
The new working paper focused primarily on fast food workers in 25 California counties and 22 New York counties that"are representative of the U.S as a whole: the distribution of average county wages in 42 of these counties lies uniformly between the 10th and 90th percentiles of all U.S. counties."
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