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New CAROW Explainer: What is a Minimum Wage?

The Cornell University ILR School’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) released a new explainer today that defines a “minimum wage”, describes what a minimum wage is designed to do, evaluates how well the federal and NYS minimum wages are performing those intended functions, and highlights current on-the-ground efforts to change minimum wage law in NYS.