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Minimum Wage Fight Breaks the Left-Right Divide

March 8, 2021 · 12:00 pm ET · Leave a Comment

NBC News: “Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley, and Amazon don’t often find themselves on the same side of an issue.”

“But years of stagnant wages that have failed to keep up with living costs and the political realignment spurred by Donald Trump are bringing together more than just Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont; Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri; and Amazon, one of America’s biggest businesses.”

“The politics of the minimum wage have been scrambled, dividing the business community and making strange bedfellows out of populists on the right and the left.”

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