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$10 Minimum Wage Would Push Huge Percentage Of Working Poor Out Of Poverty
Raising the minimum wage to just $10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty, according to a new study. The study, by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a national organization focusing on racial equity in the restaurant industry, discovered that nearly 58 percent -- or roughly 6 million -- of the 10.4 million U.S. workers living below the federal poverty level in 2011 would be pulled out by such an increase.
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The greedy top percent probably won't let this happen.