What Millionaire Is Behind the Cynical Campaign to Keep the Minimum Wage Down?

A recent national survey conducted for the National Employment Law Project (NELP), by Hart Research Associates, finds just 25% buy the claim that raising America’s wage floor so working people can live in decency costs jobs.

Trumka writes:

And the public would be right. Recent respected academic research has determined that raising the minimum wage does not result in job loss—even during bad economic times. Forbes, a two-time unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate, is on the wrong side of the public in more ways than one. The NELP-commissioned survey shows that 80% of the public—including 62% of those in Forbes’ own party—supports raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and adjusting it for inflation in the future, as President Obama and congressional Democrats propose.

Read the rest of Millionaire Steve Forbes Has a Cynical Campaign to Keep Working People Down in The Guardian.

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This has been reposted from the AFL-CIO.