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Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009 – here’s why efforts to raise it have failed
The Conversation
04 Apr 2024
Abstract
In Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the U.S., the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for the past 15 years. That’s the minimum wage everywhere in Pennsylvania, and it matches the federal minimum wage. However, minimum wage workers in other big American cities earn significantly more: $16 an hour in New York and $15 an hour in Boston, for example. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009 – here’s why efforts to raise it have failed
- Creators
- Michael O'Bryan - Drexel University, Lindy Institute for Urban InnovationAlicia Atkinson - Drexel University, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Resource Type
- Newsletter article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
- Other Identifier
- 991021864301504721