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Nearly 30 states have laws that preempt local governments from setting higher local minimum wages, which prevents cities with high costs of living from unilaterally creating higher wage floors and contributes to persistent mismatches between pay and local living expenses.
No single explanation suffices for why statutory minimums often fall short of what experts call a “livable” wage; the landscape is a patchwork of a frozen federal floor, uneven state and local action,...
a patchwork of city-level changes—mostly easing density limits, , and implementing or preference policies—have reshaped local separation-era ordinances, often because states passed new mandates or mod...
through legal authority, fiscal leverage, and political alignment: states set the legal framework that can constrain or empower municipalities, control major revenue flows, and wield preemption or tak...