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"the Congressional Budget Office estimated that a hike to $15 would slash a total of 1.4 million jobs, reducing national employment levels by almost 1% due to employee layoffs,"
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"Handing over responsibility on the minimum wage to states makes sense on a lot of levels. Individual states already have the power to regulate their own minimum wages, although there currently isn’t a great incentive to do so since the federal government is trying to control the minimum wage for the entire nation. Encouraging states to address their own minimum wages would offer a major boost to employees around the country; workers subject to both federal and state rates are 'entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages,' according to Cornell Law School."
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