Social Security and many tax code provisions are required by federal law to be adjusted for inflation every year. The minimum wage is not. In the more than eight years since Congress passed the last increase, the buying power of the minimum wage has eroded by 17% and is currently at its second-lowest value since 1955. By Indexing the minimum wage to inflation, the value of labor of the worker is protected.
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