[Job Growth\Federal Minimum Wage]
Rep. Bobby Scott: “Job growth in the first three years under President Trump continues to lag behind job growth in the final three years under President Obama…After more than a decade without an increase in the federal minimum wage, there is now no place in America where a full-time worker making the federal minimum wage can afford the basic essentials.”
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Raise the Wage Act
VIRGINIA REP. SCOTT: TIME TO RAISE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE
GAO REPORT: ACHIEVING AMERICAN DREAM HARDER FOR MILLENIALS, RACIAL DISPARITIES DIMINISHING ECONOMIC MOBILITY
[Economy\GAO Report]
According to GAO, millennials had an estimated median net worth of $20,038 in 2016 dollars, $11,202 less than the average net worth of Generation Xers when they were 25 to 34 years old—a 36-percent decline over 15 years… Black families experience less upward economic mobility from one generation to the next than white families.
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