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Figure 8.4

Source: Data from U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, “Minimum Wage Laws in the States,” January 2015 (http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm#Consolidated).

Figure 8.6

Source: Data from U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 1960 to 2014 Annual Social and Economic Supplements; Carmen DeNavas-Walt and Bernadette D. Proctor, Figure 4: “Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2013,” in Income and Poverty in the United States, 2013, Current Population Reports P60-249, U.S. Census Bureau, September 2014.