PolitiFact | Yes, it’s been decades since the minimum wage kept up with inflation, and years since it increased

"To anyone living in fear of the myth of wages growing too quickly, it's been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all," Barnes tweeted May 23, 2021.

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/19/mandela-barnes/yes-its-been-decades-minimum-wage-kept-inflation-a/