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Watch Civic Action founder Nick Hanauer break down the enormous implications of a first-of-its-kind study that shows raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour doesn't kill jobs — it creates them .
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John —
When people like Nick Hanauer first started calling for a $15 minimum wage, Forbes said the idea was "near insane ." Raising wages would kill jobs, the Very Serious commentators insisted. It was just basic Econ 101, they explained.
Dozens of cities and states went ahead and raised the minimum wage anyway, so now we have actual real-world data, including a first-of-its-kind, high-quality academic study from the University of California at Berkeley on the economic impact of these big wage increases.
And here's the headline: raising the minimum wage doesn't kill jobs, it creates them [[link removed]] .
Want to know more? Take a few minutes to check out this quick video [[link removed]] where Nick digs into this new study on the $15 minimum wage, and how it's a game-changer in the ongoing fight for higher wages .
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— Team Civic Action
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