Recently, Peña helped a single, Hispanic mother earning little more
than minimum wage purchase her first home.
Not exact matches
The current
minimum wage is lower
than it has been in terms of
purchasing power for every year between 1956 and 1983, according to Brookings.
In today's dollars, the current federal
minimum wage offers 30 percent less
purchasing power
than it did in 1968, according to NELP.