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Minimum-wage Workers will Lose Almost $2,370 in Purchasing Power This Year

by eNews Park Forest on March 1, 2018

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Minimum wage workers — A cashier checks out a customer in Lakewood, Colorado, August 11, 2017. (Source: Center for American Progress)

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—March 1, 2018

By: Rachel West

Today is Minimum Wage Workers’ Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how many additional days into the new year a minimum-wage worker must work to earn the same amount she did in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was last increased. The answer, according to a new analysis from…