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Even though Congress has blocked efforts to increase the minimum wage, states and private companies are moving forward to increase what workers' paychecks. 

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Congress may have blocked an effort to give U.S. workers a raise from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour, at the very least, but hundreds of thousands of workers will see an increase on their paychecks anyhow. 

That's because both states and private companies are moving forward with minimum wage hikes despite the actions of the federal government. This week, IKEA and Gap — which includes Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta — both announced that all of their minimum wage workers would receive their minimum wages. 

Gap started by increasing all employees pay to at least $9 an hour immediately, with plans to increase to $10 by next summer. IKEA plans to increase its minimum wage to $10.76 starting next January. 

Workers in Massachusetts will also see a heftier paycheck. The state just signed a law that would raise minimum wage nearly one dollar each year until it reaches $11 per hour in 2017.

Half of all states have yet to increase the $7.25 minimum wage. In 2014 alone, nine states and Washington, D.C. enacted minimum wage increases, as well as President Obama in an executive order to pay federal contractors a minimum of $10.10 per hour.

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