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Somebody earning pennies more than minimum wage would be excluded from this analysis, despite the fact that they’re earning poverty wages and would benefit from
by drewrv 6y ago
Somebody earning pennies more than minimum wage would be excluded from this analysis, despite the fact that they’re earning poverty wages and would benefit from an increase to the minimum wage.
> the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021, reporting that increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour would affect 17 million workers who are currently making below that. Another 10 million additional workers earning slightly above $15 per hour would be affected.
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- strictnein 6y agoThe data from 1979 would also have those same people who earned just over minimum wage. Of course drastically increasing the minimum wage would affect a bunch of people.
- imtringued 6y ago>, despite the fact that they’re earning poverty wages and would benefit from an increase to the minimum wage. It could lose them their job, or not. You don't know that. Nobody knows that. That's why if you must raise the minimum wage, you do it slowly, step by step.