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The federal minimum wage hasn’t budged since July 2007 .
The longest period without a national increase in the minimum wage since it was established in 1938 .
The last time Congress voted to raise the minimum was when Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were still alive.
20 states that only require $ 7.25 an hour, including Texas and battleground states Wisconsin , North Carolina and Pennsylvania .
McDonald’s says it raised wages by 8% for hourly workers at more than 90% of its corporate-owned restaurants in 2022 .
That's on top of a pay hike of about 10% in 2021 .
The California pay hike covers about half a million fast food workers in the state.
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