10/30/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"A sustainable wage actually reduces the cost for the employers, and keeps people employed."
"Had the minimum wage grown at the same pace of incomes going to the top 1 percent of the taxpayers, the minimum wage would have stood at $33 an hour before the recession in 2007."
"I have to say, you have now switched your argument from what it was going to do to your business, to what it is going to do to the economy."
"Despite the speculation, what the numbers show in terms of what employers actually did is that we are not seeing job losses."