Higher minimum wages are creating more jobs (with Michael Reich)
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The Impact of the $15 Minimum Wage on Local Economy
Michael Zuckerman: This is the first study on the $15 minimum wage and the impact that it had on the economies, you know, the local economies in which it was introduced. In one or two sentences, we find that $15 minimum wages. do have very large and what economists call statistically significant positive effects on the number of jobs," he says. "We also find large positive employment effects among teens who are the other group that these studies often look at"
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