Claude Sonnet 5Sep 2411 citations
Does the minimum wage need to keep up with the cost of living?
This is a genuinely debated policy question with strong arguments on multiple sides, but there's clear factual evidence showing what happens when minimum wages don't keep pace with living costs—and a growing policy trend toward automatic adjustment.
The case for tying minimum wage to cost of living
The federal minimum wage shows what happens without adjustment. The U.S. federal minimum wage has