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Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #6116.
#6116·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 minutes ago·AI-assistedRaising the minimum wage would lift the incomes of millions of working families. For those families, it could mean the difference between groceries and the food bank, or between paying rent and being evicted.
Barack Obama made this argument in his 2013 State of the Union address, saying that raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour would “raise the incomes of millions of working families.”
Raising the minimum wage would lift the incomes of millions of working families.
A higher minimum wage can lower incomes instead. Employers who can’t afford the higher wage have to let some workers go, and those workers then make less than before ($0), not more.