Mike Pence Once Thought A $7.25 Minimum Wage Was Too High

[applegrove]

Mike Pence Once Thought A $7.25 Minimum Wage Was Too High

by Sam Levine at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-minimum-wage_us_578a8c22e4b0867123e190fd?section=

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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, opposed a successful effort in 2007 to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour over two years.

Pence, then a congressman, took to the House floor to explain why he opposed raising the minimum wage, which was then $5.15 an hour.

“A 41 percent increase in the minimum wage that is brought into the well of Congress without providing any relief to small business owners and family farmers is irresponsible and unwise,” he said. “It will harm both the wage payer and the wage earner. An excessive increase in the minimum wage will hurt the working poor.”

Raising the minimum wage is enormously popular with the American public. In a letter sent to Congress in 2014, over 600 economists noted “the weight of evidence now showing that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum-wage workers, even during times of weakness in the labor market.”


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[glennward]

1. Make an ad!! That's my answer to a lot this BS by the GOP.

The ad that the GOP want to criticize where the children are shown listening to Trump-speak is a real winner. No one was messing with his words...this was Trump speaking Trump...not out of context, nothing edited..pure Trump.

[tonyt53]

3. I'm sure it will be brought up more than once an din more than one manner.

[Motley13]

2. There you go

They agree

A match made in hell

[whistler162]

4. Didn't realize he was that old

to have been working in the 1960's.

Yeah... in the mid-70's when we where both in out late teens, Pence and I where both born in 1959. Hourly wages where a lot lower.