[Reno89519]

Okay, so 1.4 million lost jobs versus how many people get more income? First, how many lose there job with the intial phased in raises? Second, how many of those people getting more income will inturn need less public assistance?

Democrats re going to raise the minimum wage, that is a given. We should look realistically at the pros and cons. I don't think it is worth fighting the losing side of increased minimum wage.

I think a better approach will be to de-politicize this by setting up an automatic indexing or something to manage minimum wage over time.

Plus, lets add more value to this by tying it to full 100% implementation of e-Verify for existing and future workers. Let's make sure that only Americans benefit from these wages. This will also mean more competition for American workers, raising wages anyway. A good thing all around.

[deport]

Click this link for state by state info on minimums at this time

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx#Table

[winterystorm]

You are thinking people that have low incomes will get off getting supplemented government assistance.
But that will actually fail because the cost of doing business will go up so the price of everything will go up.
So the people it is suppose to help will actually be the people it will hurt.

The only way the low earners get out of the low paying jobs is getting a better education which would lead them to higher paying jobs.

I personally feel the cost of College should be lowered. I do not feel it should be free but it should be available for all in some form.