Here’s Where People Are Working To Raise The Minimum Wage Without Congress

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/28/3217591/minimum-wage-map/



In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama is expected to bring up not just an executive order to raise the minimum wage for workers employed through federal contracts, but his support for bringing the federal wage up to $10.10 an hour from its current level of $7.25.

But many cities and states aren’t waiting for action at the federal level to give their workers a raise. There has been a flurry of legislative efforts across the states to increase incomes for the lowest paid workers: