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2023-05-04 17:49:22 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 989E4AF6BFA4E346DFF0D373ADCD1F8339DDA6D7CB2DC044311678F68ED50C22
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A large majority of minimum wage studies indicate that raising the minimum wage leads to employment reduction. https://www.nber.org/papers/w12663 According to 2021 data from BLS: Only 1.4% of hourly paid workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. 44% of those earning minimum wage were under age 25. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2021/pdf/home.pdf
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