Raising the minimum wage allows low income workers (the working poor) to have a livable wage. Putting the burden for providing a living wage on the private sector businesses can help governments reduce their social programs, saving the tax payers billions of dollars annually. Why are conservatives so resistant to this argument?
To the business owners who claim that increasing minimum wage will hurt their bottom line I say to you if you can't afford your workforce than perhaps a business that as a more efficient model should take your place. That would be a true free market system. By increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour you could move millions of unskilled workers out of poverty moving them off of programs like food stamps which are costing the tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars a year, adding to the deficit conservatives pretend to care so much about.
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