Pennsylvania: Minimum Wage Study Incites Controversy
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Advisory Board has just released a report prepared for it by the state's Department of Labor and Industry. The study concludes that last year's two-step increase in the minimum wage to $6.25 per hour in January and then to $7.15 in July had little or no negative effect on employment levels or the unemployment rate.
Thus, given the board's finding that the number of Pennsylvania workers earning less than $7.15 per hour was reduced by 132,800 from 2006 to 2007 and no harm was done to the economy, the reader is led to infer that raising the minimum wage was an unalloyed success in assisting workers in the lower pay levels as they struggle to climb out of poverty...click to continue
