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Steve Watkins: “The CBO published in a 2014 study that a 10 percent or a $10 minimum wage would cost a half a million jobs.”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
The CBO published in a 2014 study that a 10 percent or a $10 minimum wage would cost a half a million jobs.
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Steve Watkins
Republican · Kansas

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Watkins cites a CBO study to argue against raising the minimum wage.

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