(LEX 18) — A recent report from a non-partisan, independent organization looked at the state of minimum wage in Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, never before had it been a poverty wage until this year.

Matching the federal minimum wage, Kentucky's minimum hourly wage is $7.25.

"$7.25 is a very low wage," Dustin Pugel said.

A wage so low, as Pugel puts it, employers really don't even hire at that wage anymore.

"There are some folks who are below the minimum wage, but $7.25 is, you know, it's an unlivable wage," Pugel noted.

Kentucky minimum wage earnings fall below the poverty line with purchasing power at a 75-year low, according to Pugel, the policy director at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.

"It's obviously something that we're concerned abou

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