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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

  • Written by Michael O'Bryan, Distinguished Research Fellow at Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University
Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009 – here’s why efforts to raise it have failedA full-time minimum wage worker in Philadelphia earns just over $15,000 a year with no vacation or sick days.Allan Baxter/The Image Bank Collection via Getty Images

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...

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