If anyone is curious, I recently happened to look at what the federal minimum wage from the early '80s would be equivalent to today. It's $13-16/hour, depending

If anyone is curious, I recently happened to look at what the federal minimum wage from the early '80s would be equivalent to today. It's $13-16/hour, depending on what method you use to convert to today's dollars. So yeah, minimum wage workers (at least in states that don't set the state minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage) have been getting screwed for a long time.