South Dakota’s Minimum Wage Workers Are Eating At Soup Kitchens — But They Could Get A Raise Soon

SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA—In downtown Sioux Falls, The Banquet provides community members free warm meals six days a week. These meals aren’t just for the unemployed or the homeless; many minimum wage workers come to feed themselves and their families in the cafeteria-style dining room. Two weeks before South Dakotans vote on a proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50, low-wage workers eating at The Banquet told ThinkProgress that the additional $1.25 per hour will… Read more…

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