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The Fight for 15 movement — a nationwide campaign led by the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) — has gained momentum since its launch in 2012. As a result, several states and localities have implemented a $15 minimum wage. Even some private companies jumped on the bandwagon early on, despite…

In a recent blog post, a team of researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York conclude that the state’s experiment with rapidly-rising minimum wage levels had “no discernible effect on employment.” The researchers draw this conclusion after comparing “leisure and hospitality” employment in bordering counties between…

Despite mountains of data exposing the negative effects on businesses and workers of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, big labor and activist groups continue to push the policy in states and municipalities across the country. Now they are trying to hide the blowback. One union group is…

The consequences of the UC Berkeley labor teams’ flawed studies are once again being felt by small businesses throughout the bay area. Before cities in the Bay Area debated whether or not to raise their minimum wages — they relied on studies by the University of California Berkeley’s labor team…

Does America support a $15 minimum wage? Democrats in Congress seem to think so. The House voted along party lines last month to pass the “Raise the Wage Act.” This piece of legislation is an unprecedented measure which would more than double the minimum wage and also eliminate the…

The anecdotal and empirical evidence on the harm caused by New York’s minimum wage experiment is overwhelming. Consider the following: Multiple news articles — including extensive reporting by the Wall Street Journal and Crain’s New York Business —have covered the business closures and cutbacks that followed in the wake of severe…

The second round of the Democratic presidential candidate debates commences this week, giving candidates ample opportunity to reaffirm their policy stances heading into the 2020 election. Most candidates, including former President Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden, have endorsed a 107 percent hike in the federal minimum wage from its current…

Presidential hopeful and current Senator Bernie Sanders was able to survive a labor stand-off against his own campaign staff, but not without highlighting one consequence of minimum wage hikes. Sen. Sanders has been a vocal proponent about the supposed benefits of a $15 national minimum wage that it has become…

House Democrats are about to vote on the “Raise the Wage Act” which would increase the federal minimum wage 107 percent to $15 an hour and eliminate the tip credit. Some Democrats have called the increase “moderate.” However, a recent nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report found…

July 1st, 22 states and localities will increase their minimum wages. These increases include two states, the District of Columbia, and 19 other localities. View the full list in the chart below. Twelve localities in California will see minimum wage increases, despite evidence that minimum wage hikes…