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==Minimum wage criteria==
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===General===
The following information taken from [http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/q-a.htm (USDL)]
===Increase minimum wage?===
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*Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office compares trade-offs:
**Compared raising the minimum wage to $10.10 and to $9.00. Under the '''$10.10 scenario, there would likely be a reduction of about 500,000 workers across the labor market, as businesses shed jobs, but about 16.5 million low-wage workers would see substantial gains in their earnings in an average week.''' Under the '''$9.00 scenario, the labor force would see a reduction of 100,000 jobs, but an estimated 7.6 million low-wage workers would see a boost in their weekly earnings'''. [http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44995-MinimumWage.pdf (CBO)]
