{"id":1184,"date":"2014-04-04T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2014-04-04T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:03:29","slug":"the-morning-buzz-states-take-initiative-to-raise-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/04\/the-morning-buzz-states-take-initiative-to-raise-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | States Take Initiative to Raise Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Today\u2019s Buzz reports on the labyrinthine task of filing taxes for same-sex married couples, how states are taking the initiative to raise their 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