The minimum wage right now is, in fact, worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.
Tom Harkin: “The minimum wage right now is, in fact, worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.”
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Harkin highlights the decline in the real value of the minimum wage over decades.
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