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Edited by Bistromathics: 2/19/2014 1:32:56 AM
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CBO: $10.10 minimum wage could cost 500k jobs, lift 900k out of poverty

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[quote][url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/minimum-wage-hike-could-kill-500000-jobs-but-help-alleviate-poverty-cbo-reports/2014/02/18/d171c130-98de-11e3-80ac-63a8ba7f7942_story.html]About 15 percent of the nation’s workforce would see wages rise under the proposal, according to the report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. In addition to the 16.5 million people who earn less than $10.10 an hour, as many as 8 million workers whose earnings hover above that level could also benefit, the report said. The higher wages would lift about 900,000 people out of poverty, the report said. But the CBO warned that raising the minimum wage could also cause employers to lay off low-wage workers or hire fewer of them, reducing overall employment by about 500,000 jobs, or about 0.3 percent of the labor force. The CBO acknowledged that its calculation is an estimate and said actual job losses could range from “very slight” to as many as 1 million positions. “The increase in the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers,” the CBO said in the report. “The large majority would have higher wages and family income, but a much smaller group would be jobless and have much lower family income.”[/url][/quote] Both Democrats and Republicans can draw something from the report: the former can go with the poverty figures, and the latter can go with the employment figures. Raising the minimum wage is a position that's widely supported by the American people, though their preferred wage is actually less than the $10.10 that Democrats are pushing for.

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