Cass Ballenger: “Now the President wants to ``make work pay'' by raising the minimum…”

On the recordMay 14, 1996

Now the President wants to ``make work pay'' by raising the minimum wage. Yet just 2 years ago he said that raising the minimum wage is ``the wrong way to raise the income of low-wage earners.'' President Clinton knows that upgrading worker skills results in an increase in wages. He has said that ``what you earn depends on what you learn; the most effective way to help is to make workers more productive because wages reflect the value of what people produce.'' ``After all, most minimum wage workers are not poor.'' That is Secretary Reich to President Clinton. ``An increased minimum wage often takes from the poor to help the middle class.'' That is economist Robert Shapiro, friend of Bill Clinton's.

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Cass Ballenger

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Discussing the implications of raising the minimum wage during a debate on economic policy.

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Cass Ballenger: “Now the President wants to ``make work pay'' by raising the minimum wage. Yet just 2 years ago he said that raising the…”

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