A Kentuckian who works a full-time job earning the state's minimum wage would now be considered to be living in poverty by government standards, according to a report by a Kentucky research group released last month.

Kentucky's minimum hourly wage has been set at $7.25 – matching the federal minimum wage – for the past 16 years. In an analysis from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, the annual earnings of a full-time worker making that rate now fall below the poverty threshold for all household sizes in the Bluegrass State.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (KyPolicy) is an independent, nonpartisan organization that produces and shares research regarding policy issues in the commonwealth. Dustin Pugel, the center's policy director, said the minimum wage had never been a 'pove

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