Tracy burns, jonasax ferris, hn layfield along with david mercer. Welcome, everybody. Gary b. , will maximizing the minimum wage minimize or maximize our jobgrowth . Well, brenda, its going to kill job growth, especially when you get right down to it what the minimum wage does, it discriminates against lessskilled workers. Its plain and simple. New york in 2006 raised their minimum wage from about 5. 15o 6. 75. They saw a 20 increase in unemployment against younge lesser skilled workers. In 2007 before the recession started, unemploymt amongst young black teenagers i want to get the figure right was about 29 . Now, after all the stimulus and what weve done, its 40 . So clearly it works against these worker and, you know, the argument that the left makes is, well, these businesses cant afford it. First of all, most Small Businesses,renda, canant afford to pay more. But even if they can, even if youre walmart, they say, they can afford it. Id like to know from the left what happens with