New Jersey and Delaware are among the 23 states where minimum wage workers will get a pay raise as a result of laws passed in previous years.
, that raising the minimum wage to $15 would lead to an estimated 1.4 million lost jobs nationwide.
Additionally, nearly 30 cities and counties across the US will increase their minimum wage, according to the EPI, a left-leaning think tank. "The fact that there's high inflation really just underscores how necessary these minimum wage increases are for workers," said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, a research assistant at the EPI. "Even before the pandemic, there was no county in the United States where you could affordably live as a single adult at $15 an hour."
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