Second Minimum Wage Hike Not 'Enough' for the Media

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:28:48 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

Many in the media gleefully proclaimed the second scheduled increase of the federal minimum wage last week, but few journalists correctly reported how many people would benefit or included economists’ criticisms of the 2007 mandate.

Several media outlets claimed two million people would be getting a raise as of July 24, even though the real number of minimum-wage workers is only 20 percent of that amount.

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Second Minimum Wage Hike Not 'Enough' for the Media