Correction Please
Minimum-wage Hikes Maximize Economic Woes
Item: “Connecticut needs to make policy changes to climb out of its quagmire of stagnant wages and other economic woes, a study by the nonprofit advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children says,” reported the Journal Inquirer, a tabloid published in Manchester, Connecticut, on September 3. “A small start, the study concluded, would be to raise the state’s current $10.10 per hour minimum wage to $15 an hour in stages over the next three years.”
Item: In New Mexico, an analyst for that state’s “Voices for Children” made the case on August 29 for “Why New Mexicans Need a Higher Minimum Wage.” Sarah Hyde called for “incrementally increasing the state minimum wage to $12 by 2022, protecting workers by prohibiting training wages, and giving counties and cities the freedom to raise their minimum wages even higher. If the Legislature enacted such a proposal, $204.8 million a year would be added to the paychecks of New Mexican workers.” The “research and policy analyst at NM Voices for Children” maintained that, in addition to helping the workers, “Local economies will reap the benefits, as well. Minimum wage increases help small businesses.”
Item: The website of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), an organized labor group that supports “progressive” Democrat policies, asserts, “Stagnant income is the crisis of our time.” NELP also insists: “Raising the minimum wage is one of the best tools we have to lift incomes and grow our consumer-driven economy,” bemoaning that “the federal minimum wage” has been “stuck at $7.25 since 2009.”
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