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Last updated January 9, 2023
Economic Policy Institute, Minimum Wage Tracker, values as of January 2023.
David Cooper, Sebastian Martinez Hickey, and Ben Zipperer, “The Value of the Federal Minimum Wage Is at Its Lowest Point in 66 Years,” Working Economics Blog (Economic Policy Institute), July 14, 2022.
Peter Dreier, “If You Like Social Security and Minimum Wage, Thank Frances Perkins,” HuffPost, May 30, 2015, updated December 6, 2017.
Jonathan Grossman, “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage,” U.S. Department of Labor website, originally published in Monthly Labor Review in June 1978.
U.S. Department of Labor, “Minimum Wage” (web page), accessed November 12, 2020.
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