Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/1/19


Workers in 11 blue, five purple and five red states will receive a raise today by virtue of a state- or voter-mandated increase in their respective minimum hourly wages. For the 10th consecutive year, North Carolina minimum-wage workers will not join them. They remain at the federally mandated $7.25 an hour set in 2009, along with workers in 16 other states. Workers in the remaining states did not see an increase today, but were already above the federal minimum wage.

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