Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
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Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
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