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There’s no doubt about it: Raising the minimum wage isn’t just a matter of economic justice, it’s also a women’s equality issue — especially since close to 60% of minimum-wage earners are women, many of them with children. And guess what? If we raised the minimum wage, it would move many of them off of…

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