Minimum Wage "Did You Know...?" (Washington DC Edition) - Granite Grok

Minimum Wage “Did You Know…?” (Washington DC Edition)

Henry Payne Feb 27th
Henry Payne Feb 27th

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]

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