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Matt Talbot: Now is the time to raise the minimum wage

January 22, 2014 by Editor 51 Comments

IN A CRITIQUE OF A RECENT COLUMN by New York Times columnist David Brooks, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the following: “(W)hen almost all the gains from growth go to the top, as they have for the last thirty years, the middle class doesn’t have the purchasing power necessary for buoyant growth. “Once […]

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