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Comment on: Blog Post 'CBO: $10 Minimum Wage A Mixed Bag': 4.html Even if one assumes that the CBO's projections for employment loss are correct, the report indicates that the benefits of a $10.10 minimum wage outweigh the costs. The hike would lift about 900,000 people out of poverty, the budget office estimates. In addition, a minimum wage hike would directly benefit 16.5 million workers by giving them a raise, the report found. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/20/1279092/-This-is-the-net-benefit-of-a-higher-minimum-wage-Yet-another-CBO-report-misreported Thu Feb 20, 2014 at 10:55 AM PST This is the net benefit of a higher minimum wage - Yet another CBO report misreported byEgberto WilliesFollow Many economists are flabbergasted because all the best scholarship on minimum wage shows it does not cost jobs. The CBO provided absolutely no new analysis to refute that. The reality is that the CBO report is overwhelmingly positive on the impacts of raising the minimum wage. 25 million Americans would receive more pay. This will lift almost a million Americans out of poverty. In an attempt at balance which false equivalences tend to skew, the CBO thought that crediting a debunked myth of potential job losses would make it seem more balanced. This morning there was a very good discussion on the minimum wage on MSNBC with Demos’ Bob Herbert. He had two very important statements about the minimum wage and job losses that should be heeded. “I have been hearing this all of my adult life,” Bob Herbert said. “Every time they have raised the minimum wage, nothing catastrophic has happened. That has never occurred. And not only that, we tend to forget that the minimum wage use to be worth, it actually was higher because it use to worth more than it is now. It’s been eroded by inflation. … There is plenty of room for the minimum wage to be raised in this country.” Near the end he made the most important statement. “It seems to me that if you can’t afford to pay your workers a reasonable wage,” Bob Herbert said. “You can’t afford to be in business. How is a wage any different for example like your overhead, your rent, than what you have to pay for supplies, and that sort of thing? The idea that workers should subsidize the profits of corporations I think is just silly. Pay workers a reasonable wage.” Here are some noteworthy facts relative to the minimum wage. The CBO report confirmed that increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 will help 900,000 people get out of poverty. The ratio of CEO-to-worker pay has increased 1,000% since 1950. The CBO report confirmed that increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10/hr will mean a raise for nearly 25 million working people. 600 economists, including seven Nobel laureates, signed a letter stating that ‘increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum wage workers.’ Most states that have raised their minimum wage when lots of people were out of work have seen employment increase, not decrease. A business with a business model incapable of paying a livable minimum wage is not a real business. A business who refuses to pay less than a livable minimum wage is at best a wealth transfer agent from the have-nots to the haves. Many businesses that pay a substandard minimum wage are really being subsidized by the taxpayers as their employees must seek welfare. ===================================== A couple of other points; 1) Would YOU be willing to live/support a family through working 40 Hr/week on a minimum wage job without anything else? 2) Do you think it is right that any American should work FT and live in poverty? 3) Advancing one's education is very often a good idea. How's the family going to be supported during that time someone is working on a FT poverty-level minimum wage job and going to school? Who'll take care of the kids? Will it be you? Keep Blogging! Keep Citing! Keith …; Added by Keith D. Halperin at 4:51pm on March 12, 2014

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