CHICAGO: Washington has become the first US state to require a minimum wage of more than US$9 an hour as it joined seven other states in automatically adjusting salaries to keep up with inflation.
More than a million low-wage US workers will see their hourly pay go up after the adjustment but many will remain in the ranks of the working poor in a country where nearly one in six live below the official poverty line, according to US Census Bureau statistics.
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