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1 he concept that people, who are willing to find jobs and work, should not have to live in poverty seems fair enough to most Americans. But, the Reagan Administration and other minimum wage detractors are already hard at work to come up with excuses to oppose the bill. The ones most often heard go something like this: 1) “If you raise the minimum wage, you will cause unemployment and hurt the people you want to help,” and 2) “Anyway, these workers are mostly just middle-class kids earning pocket money, and they really don’t need any more.”
No canard has been more fully debunked by the facts that the erroneous assertion that a minimum wage increase causes, massive unemployment. But low-wage employers and smoke-and-mirror economists dust it off every time an increase is proposed.
In 1966 the Secretary of Labor told Congress: “The record is that following the original establishment of the minimum wage . . . employment in the United States always went up.” This has been true for every increase but one in the 50 year history of the minimum wage. And that one increase came in 1975 when
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