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States With High Minimum Wages Are Doing Just Fine
Recent experience shows that raising pay floors doesn’t stop strong economies from booming.
Why not?
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When the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month voted 231-199 (with all but six Democrats and only three Republicans on the winning side) to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour gradually by 2025, the measure was reported as a long-sought victory for liberals. It was also dead on arrival in the Senate, where Republicans in the majority remain opposed to legislation they consider a job killer.