Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver is pushing for a whopping 17 percent hike in New York’s minimum wage, to $8.50 an hour.
How out of touch with reality is that?
If Albany moves ahead with such a plan, it will wreak substantial damage on the state’s teetering economy, hurting most the very folks it seeks to help: young, bottom-of-the-economic-ladder workers.
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