It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and

that wallety yours.

I want you to learn ideas to me so that you can keep more of what you make.

Coming up in just a few minutes, it's tax time and this year more than prior years

a lot of people have been stalling on dealing with taxes.

But there's something that almost nobody does that is absolutely carcragious for your

wallet.

I'm going to fill you in on it and hopefully getting you to think about taxes a little

bit differently.

Coming up, yet later, we're going to talk about a bunch of deals.

There are all kinds of deals today, ironically enough at a time of year where we don't

have a lot of deals.

So I don't know if it does mean maybe the economy has slowed down a gear, not recession,

but maybe slowed down a gear or whatever, but we're going to hit you with a lot of deals

coming up later.

So Bank of America has announced just prior to having to sit for a congressional hearing

that they're going to raise the lowest pay rate, their own minimum wage to 20 bucks

an hour.

And that 20 bucks an hour is a huge increase from what banks of various sizes historically

have paid.

So 15 is what it's been and now it's going to push to 20.

So they'd already raised it to 15 like Target has done and any of a number of businesses

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