Wages Haven’t Kept Up and Working Families Are Paying the Pricetranslating…

For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of living. Today, even full-time work at the federal minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to rent a market-rate two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. And More The post Wages Haven’t Kept Up and Working Families Are Paying the Price appeared first on CounterPunch.org.