New Minimum Wage Still Falls Short

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Submitted by Armand Biroonak
September 19th, 2008
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The new minimum wage of $6.55 an hour still leaves millions of hard-working Americans in poverty.

A worker who is employed full-time at the new minimum wage still earns only about $13,600 per year—$4,000 below the federal poverty line for a family of three and $7,600 below poverty for a family of four. Source
U.S. Health and Human Services
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