A tight labor market and state minimum wage increases boosted low-end wage growth between 2019 and 2023 The labor market recovery from the pandemic recession has been tremendous and low-wage workers have been key recipients of those gains, with dramatically fast real wage growth between 2019 and 2023 as we found in our recent report.
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