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Republicans argue that high minimum wages destroy jobs.
If minimum wages destroy jobs for low-skill workers, then minimum wages create both winners and losers.
To be clear, this research does not change the conclusion that minimum wages destroy jobs, and indeed the same combination of policies leads to more adverse employment effects than either policy in isolation for specific groups like teenagers and less-skilled minority men that are not eligible for the EITC, who are hit by both the higher minimum wage and increased employment by EITC recipients.
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A related argument is that a higher minimum wage destroys jobs, especially employment for teenagers.
There is still much debate among economists over whether raising the minimum wage destroys jobs; in the American section this week, our correspondant examines the evidence and points out:Where most economists agree is that the higher minimum wage does not do much to relieve poverty.
Worse, a minimum wage would destroy jobs the more jobs the higher it is set by stopping people willing to work at low wages from doing so.
A high minimum wage will destroy jobs, say rightwing economists, although they peddled that line before the start of the minimum wage, and were wrong then.
John Redwood, Mrs Beckett's Tory shadow, predicted that the minimum wage would destroy jobs and that the government would be forced to amend its own legislation to introduce the kind of exemptions Mr Mandelson had proposed.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made similar remarks, saying, "Raising the minimum wage could destroy as many as one million jobs..."...
Her regulations and taxes, like Obama's, would further discourage entrepreneurs, and her (and Bernie's) $15 minimum wage would destroy many marginal small businesses and exacerbate the unemployment of African-American youth.
They said seat belts would kill the auto industry, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) would be a "disaster for U.S. business" and the minimum wage will destroy civilization as we know it.
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