Seth Harris: “So comp time is not like cash wages. If you pay somebody cash overtime they control how it is spent--the worker controls…”

What Congress can do is to not just acknowledge that is true but to respond by ensuring that workers can transition into good-quality jobs as seamlessly and at low cost as possible to them.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify about the urgency of raising the Federal minimum wage.

We need to skill workers up so that they can compete for those high-wage, high-skill jobs, but that is difficult for a lot of workers.

Raising the minimum wage would be the first on my list.