Rapid Response Minimum Wage Update

By Rapid Response

Here's the House vote on H.R. 2 Steve King voted 'No".  Although Tom Latham voted "Yes", read what Iowa City blogger, John Deeth, has to say about his vote:
 
"Tom Latham, with one eye on Dr. Spencer in the rear view mirrow, is a yes. We wouldn't have seen THAT last year. But some things never change, you can always count on Steve King to do the wrong thing."
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Minimum Wage Increase: Debunking Conservative Misinformation
"Minimum wage increase will hurt small businesses. Another common argument against raising the minimum wage is that it will put an undue burden on small U.S. businesses. But an April 2004 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that, between 1998 and 2001, the number of small businesses (defined as those with fewer than 50 employees) grew twice as quickly in states with higher minimum wages. EPI has attempted to explain this phenomenon by pointing to "[n]ew economic models," which recognize that employers in low-wage labor markets "may be able to absorb some of the costs of a wage increase through higher productivity, lower recruiting and training costs, decreased absenteeism, and increased worker morale." This may also help explain why most small business owners (three out of four, according to a March 2006 Gallup poll) believe a higher minimum wage would have no effect on them."
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Also, the wage increase might not apply to some of our territories, which is troubling.

And that's some action you can take.
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