Theses are the numbers that really count, not those that are read about in the news. These are the numbers every family can feel. I wonder how many parents have had a teen-age/ college age kid home all summer , unemployed, and reflect on how his older sibling had a summer job paying the old minimum; how they celebrated hearing the minimum would go up; and now find the job that was there at the old min is no longer there. And there’s a lot of your $4000 family income loss.
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