Submitted by Kurt Mehta on Wed, 07/23/2014 - 08:18
Income inequality is currently at the forefront of worry for this great nation - a very serious issue that has for years been debated with seemingly no simple solution. However, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin thought he might have found an integral piece to the puzzle in 2013 (Bernstein, 2014). The Fair Minimum Wage Act [FMWA] proposes that some of our nation’s income inequality falls squarely on the shoulders of the currently unadjusted (despite-inflation) minimum wage (Bernstein, 2014).
