About 7.4 percent of Tennessee's workforce earns at or below the mimum wage, the highest proportion of minimum wage workers in the country, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nationally, about 4.3 percent of the workforce - or 3.3 million workers - earn at or below the minimum wage.
In Tennessee, about 117,000 workers earn about at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
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