House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, dismissed the proposal as a politically incendiary attempt to rally Mr. Obama's core voters, and predicted it would hurt the limping economy and suppress hiring.
The stable German labor market, despite poor weather that would normally suppress hiring, is a sign that "most firms do not expect the currently weak economic environment to persist for much longer," Thomas Harjes, an analyst at Barclays, wrote in a note.
Yet the release from the Department of Workforce Development dismissing the complaint cited analyses suggesting that raising the wage would, in fact, suppress hiring.
This unconscious bias may suppress the hiring of women in scientific careers, writes Stanford University neurobiologist Jennifer Raymond in a Nature op-ed.
A 2009 Government Accountability Office report showed that Bush appointees suppressed civil rights cases and made hiring decisions based on political affiliation rather than merit.
Kobach said he doesn't see the business groups' proposals as a poke at him but rather as confirmation that some employers want to keep hiring undocumented immigrants to suppress wages.
Pecker denies telling Wenner that he killed stories for Trump or that he hired a columnist in order to suppress a story about Trump.
Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker Pecker denies telling Wenner that he killed stories for Trump or that he hired a columnist in order to suppress a story about Trump.
