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States With High, Low Minimum Wages

May 15, 2012

Quick: What's the national minimum wage? If you're, say, one of three Republican candidates running in Missouri's U.S. Senate primary, you might be hard pressed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7cIEMHYG0E to remember it. (It's $7.25) But if you're one of about 173,000 people living in Missouri, you can probably rattle it off the top of your head. That's the number of people in Missouri-- enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot--who signed a petition to raise the state's minimum wage from the national average per hour to $8.25 in 2013, and provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the future.

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