THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER – Calls to increase the minimum wage are rising.
Financial Times columnist Edward Luce wrote that raising the minimum wage “would inject a much-needed stimulus into the anemic recovery without involving a dollar of taxpayer money.”
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The New York Times has published columns by Princeton professor Paul Krugman and University of Massachusetts professor Arindrajit Dube on the advantages of raising the hourly minimum wage from its current level of $7.25.
These commentators and others suggest a $10.10 minimum wage, a 39 percent increase for minimum wage workers, even for the worst-performing employees.
Read more at The Washington Examiner.
