Mike Enzi: “If my colleagues are so concerned about unemployment, why would they…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2004

If my colleagues are so concerned about unemployment, why would they do something that would eliminate jobs in this country? If my colleagues are so concerned about helping poor families, why would they do something that hurts poor families the most? Their effort to increase the minimum wage, while attacking the President on job creation, is not based on sound policy and economics. It is time for us to look beyond the smokescreen and see who is really helped and who is really hurt by Senator Kennedy's amendment to raise the Federal minimum wage. Every student who has taken an economics course knows if you increase the price of something--in this case, the minimum wage job--you decrease the demand for those jobs.

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Mike Enzi

Republican · Wyoming

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the Boxer-Kennedy amendment to raise the Federal minimum wage.

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Mike Enzi: “If my colleagues are so concerned about unemployment, why would they do something that would eliminate jobs in this…”

Editor's note · Context