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Report: $15 Minimum Wage Would Help 30 Percent Of Wisconsin Workers

“You can see that even though it’s a universal policy … it raises the wages and brings towards the middle, workers who are disproportionately at the bottom — and that’s Black and brown workers and that’s women workers,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS.

Read the full article at: https://www.wpr.org/report-15-minimum-wage-would-help-30-percent-wisconsin-workers
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