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All grants and cooperative agreements.

 

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Law Guide, the Davis-Bacon Act: "...requires that all contractors and subcontractors performing on federal contracts (and contractors or subcontractors performing on federally assisted contracts under the related Acts) in excess of $2,000 pay their laborers and mechanics not less than the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits listed in the contract’s Davis-Bacon wage determination for corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on similar projects in the area."[1]

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