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Debating costs and benefits of boosting the (minimum wage)

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    Published on Feb 19, 2014

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    Amid dialogue over how to reve

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    Published on Feb 19, 2014

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    Amid dialogue over how to reverse income inequality, both political parties are seizing on a report by the Congressional Budget Office that claims that raising the minimum wage could likely lift 900,000 families out of poverty, while possibly eliminating half-a-million jobs.

    Judy Woodruff talks to Thea Lee of the AFL-CIO and David Neumark of University of California, Irvine for opposing takeaways on the report.

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