UNITED STATES: Minimum wage becomes key election issue
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- Gradual expansion
- Decreasing real value
- Reagan's legacy
- Barriers to indexing
- Congressional reluctance
- Political status quo
- Low starting point
- Federalism
- Business lobby tactics
- Economic arguments
- Barriers to change
- State level initiatives
- Limited pool of beneficiaries
- Beneficiaries' politics
- Democratic political advantages?
- Turnout effects
- Public opinion
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