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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.
