Congresswoman Julia BrownleyVerified account

You apparently never took an economics course. A hike to $15 will mean less hours or fewer positions for the existing workers, stricter hiring requirements given the higher cost (hurts teenagers with less experience), and/or higher prices for the finished goods and services.

And watch the layoffs. Already happening in Washington State but they are banking on the addition taxes from those who work to support those who don’t.

push for $10 an hour it is more reasonable

I agree, and yet you turn your back on a great jobs funding; Building 700 miles of fence with AMERICAN LABOR AND STEEL!!!!

Please focus on job training to get people out of low wage positions. Raising people's pay through government intervention will have negative consequences on the very people you are trying to help as well as the businesses that hire. Remember, give a man a fish.....

I agree, this increase is long over due.

And what will business owners do to off set the difference? Buy raising prices again. So where is the win in that?