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D.C. raises minimum wage to $15

By Kelly Cohen
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Washington, D.C. this week became one of several cities that will eventually see its minimum wage rise to $15 an hour.

“City councils and mayors can get the job done when it’s not done in Congress,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told a crowd of supporters and city officials Monday night as she signed the Fair Shot Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2016 outside of the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza in Northwest D.C.

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