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President Biden Raises Minimum Wage For Federal Contractors To $15 An Hour

Published April 27, 2021 at 12:33 PM CDT

Hundreds of thousands of federal contractors are about to see their wages go up under an executive order requiring them to be paid a minimum wage of $15 an hour.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Roben Farzad, host of public radio’s “Full Disclosure.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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