Miller Recommits to Raising the Federal Minimum Wage in Light of New CBO Report
WASHINGTON—Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, released the following statement in response to today’s Congressional Budget Office report on the effects of a minimum wage increase on employment and family income.
“No one who works full time should live in poverty, and today’s CBO report confirms that raising the minimum wage will lift nearly a million people above the poverty line. While CBO has reproduced an outdated view of the employment effects of the minimum wage, this report’s findings on poverty reduction add to the forward momentum created by more than 600 economists, savvy businesses across the country, and millions of hard-working American families who understand that a wage increase will boost the economy. There is a growing consensus that an increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. It is time for Congress to follow the lead of states and localities across the country and raise the minimum wage now.”
Rep. Miller is the author of the Fair Minimum Wage Act (H.R. 1010), which would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 in three annual stages and index it to inflation thereafter, while also raising the minimum wage for tipped workers for the first time in more than 20 years.
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