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Comment by _DeadFred_

20 hours ago

Great, then it should be easy to raise the Federal minimum wage.

No, because the ruling party doesn't believe in it, obviously. But in practice the bulk of the US labor market runs at a wage level determined by state and municipal wage laws and not the federal minimum. Even if you're technically in rural Texas, you can't hire anyone at $7.25 an hour because you're competing for labor that can gets jobs in Austin at $15.