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$15/Hour Minimum Wage A Job Killer, Democratic Labor Economists Say

About 59 percent of the economists who warned against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in a 2015 survey by University of New Hampshire researchers said they are Democrats. Raising the minimum wage that much would kill jobs for young people, they said.

About 59 percent of the economists who warned against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in a 2015 survey by University of New Hampshire researchers said they are Democrats. Raising the minimum wage that much would kill jobs for young people, they said.…