Michigan Ranks Among Worst States For Wage Growth
DETROIT (AP) - Just in time for the Labor Day holiday ... a call to raise the minimum wage has returned. It's come in the form of worker rallies and a report finding Michigan ranks second-to-worst among states for wage growth during the past 30 years.
Fast-food workers in Detroit, Flint, Lansing and elsewhere protested late last week demanding higher wages.
And the nonprofit advocacy group Michigan League for Public Policy released a study a day later also calling for an increase.
The report finds Michigan's median wage fell by 7 percent between 1982 and 2012 after adjusting for inflation - the biggest wage drop of all 50 states after Alaska.
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