Three Reasons to Avoid Raising the Federal Minimum Wage

(Sabia & Burkhauser, 2010) write in their study that only 4.3% of the population works below the minimum wage and half of those people are under the age of 25. They also looked at the effects this had on teenage employees and found that increased minimum wage resulted in a 3% unemployment increase. The evidence is very clear that it can be seen already how labor costs by minimum wage have affected this working class. An example is movie theaters, where it's becoming a common trend for theaters to let go of ushers entirely and instead use technology and automated systems. People often assume that since the minimum wage should be 12 or 1
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