The facts are otherwise: The most rigorous research over the last 15 years, including studies across state lines with different minimum wages, has found that higher minimum wages do not result in job loss, even for minimum wage increases during weak economic periods.

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"Minimum standards will help ensure there is no weak link in our infrastructure, " Dempsey wrote in his letter to Rockefeller.

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