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forwardslash  ·  4549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Raising Minimum Wage: A Help Or Harm?
Here in BC the minimum wage got bumped up to $10.25 over the course of a year which has helped enormously for me (a full-time student) and my fiancee (a minimum-wage earner).




briandmyers  ·  4549 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Here's the real problem with raising the minimum wage in America - it mostly benefits the poor, who have less and less of a voice in policy-making there.

I was going to say it only benefits the poor, but then I thought about it - it also benefits everyone that the poor spend their money on; it's like a stimulus package for a consumer-driven economy.