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Dean Baker of Center for Economic and Policy Research discusses minimum wage increase

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Another impact of the new Republican-controlled Congress is the fate of a federal minimum wage increase. Twenty states and Washington, D.C. have or will raise minimum wage in 2015. CCTV America interviewed Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about the latest policy changes.

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Another impact of the new Republican-controlled Congress is the fate of a federal minimum wage increase. Twenty states and Washington, D.C. have or will raise minimum wage in 2015. CCTV America interviewed Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about the latest policy changes.


Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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