Among the fifty states and the District of Columbia Washington DC had the highest mandatory minimum wage in 2014 at $9.50 per hour. It also had the highest percentage of people on Poverty in the US; 20.7%.
Over one in five residents live at or below the poverty level in DC.
Democrats need to stop telling lies. A higher minimum wage does not help low income “families”. If it did, DC would have the lowest poverty rate in the nation, a distinction that belongs to New Hampshire–where the minimum wage is $7.25/hour.
[su_quote style=”default” cite=”” url=”” class=””]The minimum wage does not lift people out of poverty economic mobility does, and the government artificially setting the cost of labor decreases economic mobility.[/su_quote]
