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Tom Harkin: “The minimum wage right now is, in fact, worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.”

On the recordMarch 13, 2013
The minimum wage right now is, in fact, worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the decline in the real value of the minimum wage over decades.

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