03/08/2017
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"Despite the speculation, what the numbers show in terms of what employers actually did is that we are not seeing job losses."
"when productivity increases, when profits increase, is there a reason that the minimum wage should not increase as well?"
"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."
"But if it happens gradually----it does not have the visibility and the powerful impact."