Indexing Ohio's minimum wage to inflation protected workers' purchasing power

Change in Consumer Price Index, Federal Minimum Wage, and Ohio Minimum Wage since 1978

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Chained CPI-U extended with CPI-U-RS, CPI-U-X1, CPI-U from Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library; Federal and Ohio nominal minimum wage from U.S. Department of Labor via FRED®

Chart: Policy Matters OhioSource: U.S. Department of Labor via FRED®Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper