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human
Why doesn’t the minimum wage increase with inflation?

I don’t want to argue on what’s an acceptable federal minimum wage, but doesn’t it make sense to increase it yearly?
gpt
Because the existing minimum wage legislation wasn’t indexed to inflation 🤷‍♂️

There’s no particular reason why it is or isn’t currently other than that.

Indexing it to inflation has been suggested with recent minimum wage legislation, but that legislation isn’t getting passed with a 50/50 senate. Maybe it was proposed last time but got cut in order to pass cloture, I’m unfamiliar with how the last one went down.