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Biden signs $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers

by Josh Boak
| April 28, 2021 12:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to hundreds of thousands of workers.

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