Seth Harris: “Raising the minimum wage would be the first on my list.”

if we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.

if the biggest problem that workers have is that they will have too much money to spend, I think that is a problem that we can live with

The first is the myth that the FLSA is perfectly inflexible is just that. It is a myth.

Current Federal law does not mandate that employers provide paid leave to their workers.