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The Racist Roots Behind the Minimum Wage

Economist Walter Williams has called the minimum wage “one of the most effective tools in the arsenal of racists everywhere in the world.” Yet today’s “Fight for $15” has placed a federal minimum wage increase at center stage. “The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is a starvation wage,” Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted. “If you work 40 hours a week, […]