Hiking minimum wage won't enhance economic mobility or alleviate poverty.
Hiking the minimum wage will neither enhance economic mobility nor alleviate poverty.
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Hiking the minimum wage will neither enhance economic mobility nor alleviate poverty.
Yellen says raising minimum wage to $15 would have ‘minimal’ impact on jobs, but nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office disagrees MarketWatch 1/24/2021 © brendan smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour from $7.25 would help the U.S. economy more than it would harm it, Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary nominee, told lawmakers this week. “Right now we have millions of American workers who are putting their lives on the line to keep their communities functioning, and sometimes even working multiple jobs, aren’t ea...