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On the recordJune 8, 2016
the overtime salary threshold has been allowed to erode so badly that today a worker earning less than the poverty threshold for a family of four still makes too much to be automatically eligible for overtime pay.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Scott highlights the decline in overtime protections and its impact on low-income workers.

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