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Minor League Pay

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The Minimum Wage in the South Just Will Not Work in the South

Northern Democrats in Congress made what's been called a devil's bargain. The compromise with them was, okay, you can't say this only goes to white people. So the compromise is you can exclude certain occupations. And it just so happened that workers with those jobs were disproportionately black or Latinx, disproportionately women and poor.

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