Are efforts to raise the minimum wage a benefit to Baton Rouge low-wage workers or a distraction?

    A new report from the Louisiana Budget Project estimates 63,000 Baton Rouge workers would get a pay raise this year if the Louisiana Legislature raises the state minimum wage to $8.50. The report, …


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