Raising the State Minimum Wage: How Much Can $1.25 Change Someone’s Life?
City & State’s in-depth look at raising the New York State minimum wage Five days a week Michelle Dawkins wakes up at 2:30 a.m. and drives from her Bronx apartment to begin her shift at JFK Airport, ferrying wheelchair-bound passengers among the airport’s eight terminals. From 4:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Dawkins—whom her co-workers
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