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The minimum wage rose to $4.75 Tuesday, a 50-cent-an-hour raise the government estimates will lift thousands of Americans out of poverty. The increase is the first of two that will boost the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour next Sept. 1. The overall 90-cent raise means an additional $1,800 annually for a full-time worker and, the government estimates, will remove 300,000 Americans from poverty rolls.
