Hike in Minimum Wage Maximizes Hurt to Most Vulnerable
Item: The White House website, in its “Raise the Wage” section, quotes President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address in early 2015, again calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage, saying that “nothing helps families make ends meet like higher wages” and calling for giving “millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.”
Since the president’s initial “call to action in 2013,” says the White House, “18 states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws to raise their minimum wage — benefiting millions of American workers.”
The White House went on to assert: “On average, a full-time minimum wage worker makes $14,500 a year, which leaves too many families struggling to make ends meet.”
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