and when you raise the price of employment, guess what happens. you get less of it. >> that has been the argument since the dawn of time. you can't have a minimum wage. you certainly can't raise the minimum wage. because that will mean employers will higher fewer people. unemployment will go up. you will cost people their jobs. it's always the same argument. but here's the thing. we can check to see if that argument works. because we've done this before a zillion times. at various times we have both established a minimum wage and raised the minimum wage in states like florida, colorado, ohio, missouri, alaska, kansas, just about anywhere in the country. when it happens federally we can compare before and after and when it happens between states we can compare what happens. this isn't a hypothetical question. we can look at the cause and effect of these policies. this is empirical. this is knowable. and here's what we know. raising the minimum wage has little to no effect on low wage employment. it's an empirical thing. you can check it. one study done in the mid '90s
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