related_tweet: @apaige86 @kenolin1 @austinite50 12/ is less than $7.75, meaning you have the buying power of less than your parents/grandparents did in 1972.  and, from 1979, if the minimum wage kept up at the same pace as the tax cuts for the top 1%, it would be $28.00/hour today!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  the greatest economic engine: the consumer,