• Workers need to earn three times more than Indiana's minimum wage just to survive, a new study found.

• Indiana mandates the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. But the cost of living would require a $20.81 per hour wage to cover, according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator.

• A study by the SEO consulting firm Artios found Indiana had the third highest gap nationally between the minimum wage and the cost of basic necessities for one working adult with no children. The study examined the expense of food, childcare, health care, housing and transportation.

• In neighboring Illinois, the minimum wage is $15 an hour and people need to make at least $23.56 an hour to survive. In neighboring Michigan, the minimum wage is $10.56 an hour while a worker would need to make $20.97 an hour to

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