ANGLES: National minimum wage, needed or detrimental to economy?
KAATJE WEILAND
kpweiland16@ole.augie.edu
It has been almost nine years since the minimum wage was last raised in 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, the last step of an increase approved by Congress in 2007.
Before 2007, the minimum wage was stuck