Former President Donald Trump’s visit on Sunday to a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania highlights the longest period without a national increase in the federal minimum wage since it was established in 1938.
It’s not economics,” Reich said of the record-long period of time without a federal minimum wage increase.
Reich, who has testified before Congress on the minimum wage, said there’s no question the federal minimum wage is not a livable wage.
Members of the Service Employee International Union organized the rally in support of striking McDonald's workers who are demanding a wage increase.
States hike minimum wagesAlthough the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged, many state minimum wages have.
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