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'Will minimum wage increase 2019?
Minimum wage increases in 2019. In 2019, the minimum wage rates of 21 states and Washington, D.C., will increase.'

'Currently there's a bill with the Indiana General Assembly that would increase the statewide minimum wage. If passed, the bill will raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour starting June 30, 2019. It would increase again to $15 by 2021.'

'The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees.'

So if someone can't live off of minimum wage, that's not a standard of living or healthy.

'In his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

By business I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level I mean the wages of decent living, he stated.'