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  Really curious to see if places will actually drop their wages from $10-$15 down to $7.25 (or what the state minimum wage is) during a sustained recession to cut costs and avoid headcount reduction but then say "look, see we didn't have to lay anyone off!"
context: The last minimum wage increase phased in over three years, ending in 2009. Democrats lost the House in the 2010 election and didn’t get a trifecta back until 2021. The GOP won’t increase minimum wage. 
  The Fight for $15 movement started in 2012 and achieved notable success in getting states to increase the minimum wage. 
  Covid caused a big shift in the labor market. Workforce participation has gone down and megacorps like Amazon have a virtually unlimited need for labor, so what they offer has increasingly become a defacto minimum wage. >
  
  ... until they take it away because they can.