The National Federation of Independent Businesses is ignoring survey results from its own members

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--n order to oppose a minimum wage increase.

http://washingtonpolicywatch.org/2012/07/11/how-much-longer-can-the-voice-of-small-business-keep-ignoring-it/

The percentage of firms reporting labor costs as their major concern has shown no upward trend, despite minimum wage hikes both in July 2008 and July 2009.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) has already been criticized for its opposition to the Affordable Care Act, despite the law’s demonstrable benefits for small business owners. Now it appears the NFIB is ignoring its own members’ feedback on a possible minimum wage increase, according to the Center for Economic Policy Research:

While the NFIB warns that minimum wage increases would create serious cost problems for small businesses, few of their members list “labor costs” as their “most important problem.” Instead, what we see from the NFIB survey results is that the percentage of small businesses listing labor costs as their most important problem has hovered consistently between 3% and 5% since the beginning of the recession in December 2007. In the most recent data, the percentage fell to 2%, its lowest level since the start of the recession.