text: "Americans need fair pay, not another dose of corporate tax breaks: ""Ohio's minimum wage is $7.95 an hour, which works out to just over $16,500 for a year of full-time work, and Ohio has not exactly licked the problem of people working hard but still living in poverty. And if the minimum wage was truly left to the states, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana would have no minimum wage at all."""