By Kim Hilsenbeck
At $7.25 an hour, the minimum wage in Texas – which is also the federal minimum wage – a full-time worker can earn $290 a week or roughly $15,080 annually. The U.S. Congress last raised the federal minimum wage in July 2009.
The Seton Family of Hospitals, part of Ascension Health, does not believe $7.25 an hour is a living wage.
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