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| The Minimum Wage: Then and Now |
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the nation's first minimum wage law--a law passed here in Massachusetts.
To honor that centennial, MassBudget is releasing a new report showing how many workers would be affected by an increase in the minimum wage--and examining who those workers are.
Specifically, we find that raising the minimum wage to $10 would:
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|  | | Directly increase the wages of roughly 325,000 workers currently earning less than $10/hour. |
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| | | Likely increase the wages of 250,000 additional workers currently earning slightly more than $10/hour. |
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To provide a more complete picture of the people who would be affected, the report also includes an interactive tool that lets you analyze the numbers by age, gender, work-type, education, and more.
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