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What a Minimum Wage Increase Could Mean for Small Businesses 7 min read • Mar 09, 2021 • Joe Kukura SHARE SHARE The $15 minimum wage hike is not part of the new $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that just passed Congress. That new relief package does contain $1,400 stimulus checks, an extension of the $300 per week enhanced unemployment benefit, and a $3,600 per-year child allowance payment to parents. But a proposed $15 minimum wage raise did not make it into the relief package. Yet that minimum wage increase could still be coming. President Biden...

More than 17 million Americans could see their income rise if the $15 minimum wage now in the COVID relief bill passes Congress. We hear from some of those who would be impacted by a minimum wage increase, and Stephanie Sy speaks with two economists with different perspectives on the topic. Read the Full Transcript Judy Woodruff: More than 17 million Americans could see their income rise if the $15-an-hour minimum wage in the COVID relief bill now passes Congress. For workers and for employers, there's a lot at stake. Let's hear now from some of them. And then Stephanie Sy will look more clo...

Reported By  Daily Wire News | Feb 22, 2021 | DailyWire.com Read more at https://www.conservativereview.com/democrat-rep-ro-khanna-we-dont-want-low-wage-small-businesses-that-pay-less-than-15-minimum-wage-2650697104.html/ Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) told CNN in an interview on Sunday that he and presumably other Democrats “don’t want low-wage” small businesses as he advocated for increasing the minimum wage. “We don’t want low-wage businesses,” he said…

Bloomberg Article Misleads by Omitting Key Detail about Economists Surveyed on $15 Minimum Wage A recent Bloomberg article cited a new University of Chicago survey to demonstrate a "shift" in the economics profession on minimum wage laws. Here's what they left out. Friday, February 5, 2021 , via Wikimedia Commons Bloomberg News recently ran a profile of Arin Dube, a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The story is a powerful one. It explores how Dube went from a 16-year-old burger flipper earning $3.85 at a McDonald’s in Seattle to a leading authority on the ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with small business owners about how raising the minimum wage would affect them.