In the third debate, Mr Kerry drew thumbnail sketches of his policies on health care, raising the minimum wage, immigration policy and everything else that makes voters think he feels their pain and has ideas for doing something about it.
Proponents of the minimum wage such as John Schmitt, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, like to argue that the mean effect of the minimum wage on jobs for low-skilled workers is close to zero.
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Popular treatments of the minimum wage point to Wanda Washerwoman and declare the policy a success because she now earns higher wages than she used to.
Women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers, while black and Hispanic workers represent a higher share of the minimum-wage workforce than whites, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Even so, the impact of the minimum wage depends largely on another gang of nine: the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
"Our contracts require payment of minimum wage, " says Anne Burt, a spokesperson, adding that Syngenta has a strict policy against child labor.
As of early 2012, about 70% of the 1.4 million minimum wage earners in the U.S. are full-time workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The higher minimum wage can be set to sunset in 8 years conditional on what the experiment has shown about the impact of the policy.
David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.
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