These U.S. Workers Are Being Paid Like It’s the 1980s - Bloomberg

Thanks to a web of loopholes and limits, the federal government has been green-lighting hourly pay of just $7.25 for some construction workers laboring on taxpayer-funded projects, despite decades-old laws that promise them the "prevailing wage."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-25/these-u-s-workers-are-being-paid-like-it-s-the-1980s