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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Thu Feb 27, 2014, 03:52 PM Feb 2014

Incremental Raises to Minimum Wage Will Not Increase Unemployment

Feb 26, 2014
Bob Pollin: A Recent Congressional Budget Office report claims that up to a million jobs could be lost due to a minimum wage increase, but its claims are based on weak analysis and ignores the potential gains for workers' standard of living

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Incremental Raises to Minimum Wage Will Not Increase Unemployment (Original Post) Coyotl Feb 2014 OP

The CBO also said that it would increase demand. RDANGELO Feb 2014 #1

RDANGELO

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1. The CBO also said that it would increase demand.

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:02 PM

Feb 2014

How can you have increased demand and lose employememt?

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