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The editors at Bloomberg News apparently aren’t buying the pro forma argument from corporate-backed front groups and diehard ideologues that the minimum wage is bad for our economy. Instead, when the editors at Bloomberg News planted their stake in the minimum wage debate, they joined a crowd of supporters, including economists, faith leaders, advocates, Senators, President Obama and [...]
By many accounts, the 2012 Super Bowl was a close game – but there’s still another big (political) football kicking around: the minimum wage. The players workers actually on the field job say it’s a clear winner – and so do the referees researchers who are closely watching the effect of this important rule. But [...]
When Washington voters overwhelmingly passed an initiative to index the state’s minimum wage to inflation back in 1998, naysayers made “doom and gloom” predictions that turned out to be more Chicken Little than anything else. Nine other states (AZ, CO, FL, MO, MT, NV, OH, OR, VT) followed suit, and more recently, some (at first [...]
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