Barbara Leonard
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Report tying $15 wage to fewer jobs, higher deficit draws fire
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Monday that says the cost of raising the minimum wage to $15-an-hour is too high: poised to create unemployment for 1.4 million Americans while lifting 900,000 people out of poverty.