claim: "since 1988, congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' but raised the minimum wage only three times."
author: facebook posts
evidence_1: jan 4, 2017 ... while the idea of raising the minimum wage is broadly popular, efforts to ... hourly , though given republican control of congress that prospect appears dim. ...  federal minimum to $15 an hour, but that idea was favored by just 21% of ... since  it was last raised in 2009, to the current $7.25 per hour, the federal ...
evidence_2: "since 1988, congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.'  but raised the minimum wage only three times." — politifact rhode island on ...
evidence_3: jan 6, 2015 ... our country has suffered from rising income inequality and .... source: epi  analysis of congressional budget office data. reproduced from figure i in  raising america's pay: why it's our central ... wage trends of the last three  decades .... percent, while wages of the bottom 90 percent grew just 15 percent.
evidence_4: nov 26, 2018 ... but not for other federal employees, and (2) indirectly, through ... members of  congress last received a pay adjustment in january ..... members of congress  only receive salaries during the terms for ... the second method by which  member pay can be increased is ... three times (in 1969, 1977, and 1987).
evidence_5: it's march 15, 1913, and according to the new york times, the national ... the all -items cpi increased at a 3.5-percent annual rate from 1913 to 1929 (see figure  ... indeed, it is likely that, to some extent, the high inflation of that time helped lead  ..... to price declines reflects the continued increase in real wages and consumer  ...