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work_2gu3vlevkbc7tc6ga4k5hmnfiq	Stephanie Luce	Living wages: a US perspective	2017	12	.pdf	application/pdf	7955	513	63	wage a worker with a family needed to meet the federal poverty line (Bernstein and Schmitt, that Congress passed the Federal Labor Standards Act that set the minimum wage at way to work with low-wage workers that were not yet organized into unions. stated that raising the minimum wage would be a "job killer." The Democratic City Council New York state minimum wage was the same as the federal: $7.25 per hour. same time New York fast food workers were organizing, unions were working to organize While $15 is still not a "living wage" for workers in many cities, it is a major jump from what Some critics argued that the wage increases would have little impact on workers lives movement, living wage campaigns successfully united labor unions with faith-based and The Guardian, November 29, available at: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/fightfor-15-protest-minimum-wage-fast-food-airport-workers (accessed August 25, 2017). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/fight-for-15-protest-minimum-wage-fast-food-airport-workers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/fight-for-15-protest-minimum-wage-fast-food-airport-workers	./cache/work_2gu3vlevkbc7tc6ga4k5hmnfiq.pdf	./txt/work_2gu3vlevkbc7tc6ga4k5hmnfiq.txt