Study Shows Large Minimum Wage Hikes Boost Both Earnings and Employment\u200b

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'​​That sound you hear is exploding heads,' joked one economist.

"There are millions of workers in this country who are working literally on starvation wages, eight nine, ten bucks an hour," Sanderson Wednesday."Two years ago, we proposed a $15 an hour minimum wage as a result of inflation. $15 is now the equivalent of $17."

The new working paper focused primarily on fast food workers in 25 California counties and 22 New York counties that"are representative of the U.S as a whole: the distribution of average county wages in 42 of these counties lies uniformly between the 10th and 90th percentiles of all U.S. counties."

 

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