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Increasing the Mandated Minimum Wage: Who Pays the Price?

What is it like to work at Waffle House? Amanda Claypool works part time there and says it's very satisfying but certain things confused her.

The case for everybody, and whats left is higher taxes but people leaving, no one to pay the taxes, and then they need more money to spend on these programs for crime and homelessness, self where do you go from there? straight to the bottom, and if you can afford to leave, you probably already left. the people who are left are the people that the left claims to stand up for, the most vulnerable. the minimum wage workers who know their communities have been destroyed by these problems, and they c...

Surveys show that many Americans feel anxious about their economic prospects. Often they hear stories about weak job growth or stagnant earnings that seem to confirm their fears. And many think that proposals to raise the minimum wage would help low income workers get ahead in these difficult times. But the evidence shows that that raising the minimum wage would not help.  

Connecticut is suing the operator of the state’s 23 highway rest stops. The state alleges that New Haven-based Project Service is refusing to pay more than $2.7 million in back wages to food service workers for Subway, Dunkin’ and other restaurant chains.

Workers in some states will see their paychecks this year rise by hundreds, if not nearly a thousand, dollars.

The top 1% of earners made 14.6% of all wages in 2021, while the bottom 90% earned their lowest share on record.

Black workers saw their median net worth grow by 174% from 2013 to 2019 in states that raised their minimum wages.

Raising the minimum wage will not help low-income workers or singleparents.

Congress has not raised the federal minimum wage since 1997, and some Members of Congress say that a raise is overdue to help low-income workers get ahead.[1] These lawmakers appear to believe that low-income workers will not get a raise unless the government steps in to help them.