Subject: POLITICO investigation: Behind the minimum wage fight, a sweeping failure to enforce the law
From: "POLITICO" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:08:49 -0600
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As politicians debate an increase in the minimum wage, both sides are missing an important problem: Wage laws are poorly enforced. 
 
 Six states have no investigators to handle minimum-wage violations, while 25 others have fewer than 10. But even those workers who win their cases confront a further barrier: Fully 41 percent of the wages that employers are ordered to pay back to their workers aren't recovered.
 
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