Target to raise its minimum wage to $9 an hour
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Target Corp. is the latest business to say it will raise the minimum wage for hourly workers to at least $9 an hour, following in the footsteps of Wal-Mart and the parent company of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.
"We make sure we're competitive in every marketplace in which we do business," Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder told the Star Tribune. "As part of that, we regularly and continually evaluate the marketplace to make sure our wages are competitive." Snyder also said that pay raises as part of a merit process usually happen in the spring.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
