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Does the minimum wage need to keep up with the cost of living?
No, it does not strictly “need” to in an absolute economic sense, but failing to adjust it for inflation erodes its real value and purchasing power, which undermines its role as a wage floor and can contribute to hardship for some low-wage workers. Whether it should keep pace (via regular raises or automatic indexing/COLA) is a normative policy question involving trade-offs between worker incomes,