Budget office: Wage hike would lift pay, cost jobs

[Big Money]

Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress’ nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/budget-office-wage-hike-would-raise-pay-for-165m/2014/02/18/d0bffc36-98d2-11e3-b1de-e666d78c3937_story.html

 

[StormX]

The liberals on the board are hoping they are not one of the 500,000. Most could be replaced with a monkey