MSNBC First Look November 25, 2019 10:57:00
Raising their minimum wages. and the opposition is always that that's going to cost jobs. the criticism of this is always that if you raise the minimum wage too much then people aren't going to hire. but axios now has data showing that that's not the case. that, in fact, because this is such a tight labor market and a lot of the places where the minimum wage has risen, so have jobs and hiring. so this takes away one of the big -- one of the big criticisms of it. now, of course, it can inhibit hiring, it can force people -- businesses to not expand as they would. but the basic argument that dem...