Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study

Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study:

"President Obama's call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But $9 an hour is still a far cry from what workers really deserve, a 2012 study finds. The minimum wage should have reached $21.72 an hour in 2012 if it kept up with increases in worker productivity, according to a March study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research."

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