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Almanac: Minimum wage

On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford made front-page news by sharing profits and doubling the pay of his autoworkers to a previously unheard of $5 a day, bolstering efforts to create a uniform minimum wage nationwide. Charles Osgood reports.
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