minimum wage

What Really Happens When You Raise The Minimum Wage

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From ThinkProgress: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report on Tuesday on the impacts of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and $9 an hour. It found that a $10.10 minimum wage, implemented by 2016, would mean higher earnings for 16.5 million workers, resulting in $31…

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The Anti-Minimum-Wage Group Funding Those Minimum-Wage Studies

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Michael Saltsman, the Employment Policies Institute’s research director, late last month.Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times From The NYT: The Employment Policies Institute, founded two decades ago, is led by the advertising and public relations executive Richard B. Berman, who has made millions of dollars in Washington by taking up the…

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