Trump scrambles the politics of the minimum wage

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President-elect Trump has baffled friend and foe alike on the question of where he stands on the federal minimum wage, which currently is $7.25 an hour. His position is the political equivalent of a Rorschach inkblot test: He has given so many varying statements that almost anything can be read into it.

“Well, sure it’s a change. I’m allowed to change. You need flexibility,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in a May interview.

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