Thanks for joining us. We begin the day with data on the pay gap between the middle class and low earners, which has shrunk to its lowest level on record.
The rising minimum wage means the pay-per-hour of workers on the lowest rates and those in the middle has narrowed the most since at least the mid-1970s, according to the Resolution Foundation.
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